Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A floor or story of a house. 2. (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. 3. (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging. 4. (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. 5. (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. 6. (n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. 7. (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. 8. (n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. 9. (n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles. 10. (n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. 11. (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. 12. (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage. 13. (v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Multi-Version Concordance Stage (5 Occurrences) Numbers 33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. (See JPS BBE RSV NIV) Joshua 3:15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), (See NIV) Joshua 4:18 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before. (See NIV) 2 Chronicles 6:13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.) (BBE) Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam. (DBY)