Word Summary
basis: a foot
Original Word: βάσιςTransliteration: basis
Phonetic Spelling: (bas'-ece)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a foot
Meaning: a foot
Strong's Concordance
foot.
From baino (to walk); a pace ("base"), i.e. (by implication) the foot -- foot.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 939: βάσιςβάσις,
βάσεως,
ἡ (
ΒΑΩ,
βαίνω);
1. a stepping, walking (Aeschylus, Sophocles, others).
2. that with which one steps, the foot: Acts 3:7 (Plato, Tim., p. 92{a}, et al.; Wis. 13:18).