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
- Crepuscular rays shining down a hole in the clouds
- Jacob's ladder (nautical), specialized ladders used at sea, especially a rope ladder with wooden steps for ascending from the deck to the rigging
- 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 (film), a 1990 horror film directed by Adrian Lyne
- A Ladder to Heaven, a 2002 South Park episode
- Jacob's Ladder (Ropes Course), a ladder made of 8 logs gradually increasing height
- Frenum ladder or Jacob's ladder, a body piercing
In music:
- Jacob's Ladder (Rush song), on the album Permanent Waves
- Jacob's Ladder, a song on the album Readymades by Chumbawamba
- Jacob's Ladder, a song on the album Fore! by Huey Lewis & the News
- Jacob's Ladder, a cover by Bruce Hornsby & the Range of the Huey Lewis & the News song
- Jacob's Ladder, a song by The Monochrome Set
- Jacob's Ladder, a song on the self titled album Mark Wills
- Die Jakobsleiter or Jacob's Ladder, an opera by Arnold Schoenberg
- We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, the spiritual
In other:
- A piece of apparatus for demonstrating the principle of spark gaps
- Polemonium, a genus of flowering plants with common name Jacob's Ladder or Abscess root