Jacob's Ladder
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Jacob's Ladder may refer to:
- Jacob's Ladder (Bible) on which Jacob saw angels ascending and descending
- Jacob's ladder (nautical), specialised ladders used at sea
- Jacob's ladder (toy), a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings
- A string figure pattern formed as part of a children's game
- Jacob's ladder (piercing), body piercing
- Jacob's ladder (diagram), used by movie theatres for scheduling
- Botany
- Polemonium, a genus of flowering plants with common name Jacob's Ladder or Abscess root
- Movies, music or opera
- Jacob's Ladder (movie), a 1990 thriller directed by Adrian Lyne
- We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, the spiritual
- Jacob's Ladder (Chumbawamba song), on the album Readymades by Chumbawamba
- Jacob's Ladder (Rush song), on the album Permanent Waves
- Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis & the News song), on the album Fore!
- Jacob's Ladder (Mark Wills song), on the album Mark Wills
- Jacob's Ladder (opera) by Arnold Schoenberg
- Science and technology
- A piece of apparatus for demonstrating the principle of spark gaps
- Jackob's ladder (engineering), a type of suspension used in cars [1]