Step
אֲשׁוּרStrong’s H0838ashur (a-shur)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashur is the Hebrew word usually translated “steps my”, “steps our” and “on step his”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.”
Meaning
- Step, going
- Step, going
How it's translated
- steps my 3
- steps our 2
- on step his 1
- step my 1
- steps his 1
- step his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Job 2
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
- Psalms 17:5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
- Psalms 17:11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
- Psalms 37:31The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
- Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Psalms 44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Hebrew dictionary
אֲשׁוּר ashur · step
step, going Also means: a.shur (אַשֻּׁר "step" H0838B)
אַשֻּׁר ashur · step
step, going Another spelling of a.shur (אֲשׁוּר "step" H0838A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “step” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STEP, verb intransitive
[Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.]
- To move the foot; to advance or recede by a movement of the foot or feet; as, to step forward, or to step backward.
- To go; to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
- To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely.
- To walk or advance into a place or state; or to advance suddenly in
All definitions and other forms of “step”
- To enter for a short time.
- To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon suddenly; as, to step into an estate.
STEP, verb transitive
- To set, as the foot.
- To fix the foot of a mast in the keel; to erect.
STEP, noun
[G., to form a step or ledge.]
- A pace; an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot.
- One remove in ascending or descending; a stair.
- The space passed by the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- The distance between the feet in walking or running.
- Gradation; degree.
- Progression; act of advancing.
- Footstep; print or impression of the foot; track.
- Gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action.
- The round of a ladder.
- Steps in the plural, walk; passage.
- Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.