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Lexicon :: Strong's G2487 - ichnos

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ἴχνος
Transliteration
ichnos (Key)
Pronunciation
ikh'-nos
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From ikneomai (to arrive, cf ἥκω (G2240))
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:402,379

Strong’s Definitions

ἴχνος íchnos, ikh'-nos; from ἰκνέομαι iknéomai (to arrive; compare G2240); a track (figuratively):—step.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2487 in the following manner: step (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2487 in the following manner: step (3x).
  1. a footprint, track, footstep

  2. in the NT, metaph. of imitating the example of any one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἴχνος íchnos, ikh'-nos; from ἰκνέομαι iknéomai (to arrive; compare G2240); a track (figuratively):—step.
STRONGS G2487:
ἴχνος, -εος (-ους), τό, (from ἵκω equivalent to ἱκνέομαι, to go), [from Homer down], a footprint, track, footstep: in the N. T. metaphorically, of imitating the example of anyone, we find στοιχεῖν τοῖς ἴχνεσί τινος, Romans 4:12; περιπατεῖν τοῖς ἴχν. τ., 2 Corinthians 12:18; ἐπακολουθεῖν τ. ἴχν. τιν., 1 Peter 2:21, (ἐν ἴχνεσί τινος ἑὸν πόδα νέμειν, Pindar Nem. 6, 27); cf. Latin insistere vestigiis alicuius.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Romans
4:12
2 Corinthians
12:18
1 Peter
2:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2487 matches the Greek ἴχνος (ichnos),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to[fn] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:35 - The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:3 - Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Out of the window she peered,
the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 - Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:3 - “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:35 - But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:7 - “Can you find out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - “Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36 - You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:19 - Your way was through the sea,
your path through the great waters;
yet your footprints were unseen.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 - I will destroy all its beasts
from beside many waters;
and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,
nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[fn] of their kings at their high places,[fn]
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