Footstool
כֶּ֫בֶשׁStrong’s H3534kevesh (ke-vesh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kevesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “footstool”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:”
Meaning
- Footstool
How it's translated
- and a footstool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫בֶשׁ kevesh · footstool
footstool
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “footstool” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOOT'STOOL, noun
A stool for the feet; that which supports the feet of one when sitting.
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.