the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Step
King James Dictionary
or STEP, Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.
1. To move the foot to advance or recede by a movement of the foot or feet as, to step forward, or to step backward.
2. To go to walk a little distance as, to step to one of the neighbors.
3. To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats, his flock before him stepping to the fold.
To step forth, to move or come forth.
To step aside, to walk to a little distance to retire from company.
To step in or into,
1. To walk or advance into a place or state or to advance suddenly in John 5 .
2. To enter for a short time. I just stepped into the house for a moment.
3. To obtain possession without trouble to enter upon suddenly as, to step into an estate.
To step back, to move mentally to carry the mind back.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
STEP,
1. To set, as the foot.
2. To fix the foot of a mast in the keel to erect.
STEP, n. G., to form a step or ledge.
1. A pace an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot.
2. One remove in ascending or descending a stair.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be neer less than one foot.
3. The space passed by the foot in walking or running. The step of one foot is generally five feet it may be more or less.
4. A small space or distance. Let us go to the gardens it is but a step.
5. The distance between the feet in walking or running.
6. Gradation degree. We advance improvement step by step, or by steps.
7. Progression act of advancing.
To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, could be a great step in philosophy.
8. Footstep print or impression of the foot track.
9. Gait manner of walking. The approach of a man is often known by his step.
10. Proceeding measure action.
The reputation of a man depends of the first steps he makes in the world.
11. The round of a ladder.
12. Steps in the plural, walk passage.
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree in this deep forest.
13. Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Step'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/step.html.
