Climb
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Jeremiah 4:29
- Last Reference: Amos 9:2
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H5927 Used 1 time
CLIMB, verb intransitive
1. To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to mount or ascend, by means of the hands and feet; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with the hands and lifting the body, and by thrusting with the feet; as, to climb a tree or a precipice.
And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree. Luke 19:4.
2. To mount or ascend with labor and difficulty.
3. To rise or ascend with a slow motion.
Black vapors climb aloft.
CLIMB, verb transitive
1. To ascend by means of the hands and feet, implying labor, difficulty and slow progress; as, to climb a wall, or a steep mountain.
2. To mount or ascend, with labor or a slow motion; as, to climb the ascents of fame.
CLIMBABLE, adjective That may be climbed.
CLIMBED, participle passive
1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.
2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.
CLIMBER, noun
1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.
2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.
CLIMBER, verb intransitive To climb; to mount with effort.
CLIMBING, participle present tense Ascending by the use of the hands and feet; ascending with difficulty.
CLIMBING, noun The act of ascending.