Ladder
סֻלָּםStrong’s H5551sullam (sul-lam)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sullam is the Hebrew word usually translated “stairway”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.”
Meaning
- Ladder
How it's translated
- a stairway 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
סֻלָּם sullam · ladder
ladder
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ladder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAD'DER, noun
- A frame of wood, consisting of two side pieces, connected by rounds inserted in them at suitable distances, and thus forming steps, by which persons may ascend a building, etc.
- That by which a person ascends or rises; means of ascending; as a ladder made of cords.
- Gradual rise; elevation.
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.