GreekG8025Noun (Feminine)
κλῖμαξ
klimax
“a stairway”
0Occurrences
G8025Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.a ladder or staircase (because of its leaning aslant), (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—; a scaling-ladder, (Thucydides); *κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις *(Aeschulus Tragicus):—; a ship's ladder, (Euripides)
2.a frame with cross-bars, on which persons to be tortured were tied, (Aristophanes Comicus)
3.in (Sophocles Tragicus), *κλίμακες ἀμφίπλεκτοι *intertwining ladders, to express the entanglement of the limbs of wrestlers.
4.a climax, i. e. a gradual ascent from weaker expressions to stronger, Lat. gradatio, as Cicero's abiit, evasit, erupit.
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
G:N-F
Full Description
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
κλῖμαξ appears 0 times in the New Testament.
Key Passages
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