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is the rendering in the A. V. of one Heb. and one, Gr. term (besides being employed as an adjunct in the phrases “man of high [or low] degree,” where it has no [other] correspondent in the original) îִòֲìָä , maalah' (2Ki_20:9-11 Isa_38:8, referring to the graduated scale of the dial [q.v.] of Ahaz, and in the titles of the Psalms entitled “Song of Degrees” [see below]; a step, as elsewhere generally rendered); âáèìüò (only 1Ti_3:13, graduation or promotion, etc. of a deacon [q.v.] to a higher office; or perhaps rather a spiritual stand-point or condition, see Alford, in loc.), a step (as of a staircase or door, Sir_6:36). SEE STAIRS.