maalah (thought) · Rightly

Meaning

What comes up, thoughts
Step, stairsteps (of sundial) · stories (of heaven) · ascent · song of ascent

How it's translated

the ascents 14
steps 11
the steps 5
on the steps 2
on steps of 2
the going up 2
and steps 2
on steps 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 15
Ezekiel 9
2 Kings 4
1 Kings 2
2 Chronicles 2
Nehemiah 2

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

1 Kings 10:19The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
1 Kings 10:20And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
2 Kings 9:13Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
2 Kings 20:9And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2 Kings 20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
2 Kings 20:11And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

All 39 verses, by book

Exodus 1: 20:26
1 Kings 2: 10:19 10:20
2 Kings 4: 9:13 20:9 20:10 20:11
1 Chronicles 1: 17:17
2 Chronicles 2: 9:18 9:19
Ezra 1: 7:9
Nehemiah 2: 3:15 12:37
Psalms 15: 120:1 121:1 122:1 123:1 124:1 125:1 126:1 127:1 128:1 129:1 130:1 131:1 132:1 133:1 134:1
Isaiah 1: 38:8
Ezekiel 9: 11:5 40:6 40:22 40:26 40:31 40:34 40:37 40:49 43:17
Amos 1: 9:6

Hebrew dictionary

מַעֲלָה maalah · thought

what comes up, thoughts

מַעֲלָה maalah · step

1) step, stair 1a) step, stair 1b) steps (of sundial) 1c) stories (of heaven) 1d) ascent 1e) song of ascent 1e1) to the three great pilgrim feasts (Psalm titles)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “thought” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THOUGHT, adjective

thaut. [primarily the passive participle of think, supra.

Properly, that which the mind thinks. thought is either the act or operation of the mind, when attending to a particular subject or thing or it is the idea consequent on that operation.
Idea; conception.
Fancy; conceit; something framed by the imagination.
Reflection; particular consideration.

All definitions

Opinion; judgment.
Meditation; serious consideration.
Design; purpose.“All their thoughts are against me for evil” Psalms 56:5
Silent contemplation.
Solicitude; care; concern.
Inward reasoning; the workings of conscience.“Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another” Romans 2:15
A small degree or quantity; as a thought longer; a thought better. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.