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the shadow of the degrees. It is to these "degrees", or steps of the sundial of Ahaz his father, that Hezekiah refers in the title for "The Songs of the Degrees". See App-67.
degrees = steps. Note the emphasis placed on these by the fivefold repetition of the word.
dial = degrees (making the fifth repetition of the word).