Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation)

Jacob's Ladder is a "ladder to heaven", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of Genesis

Jacob's Ladder may also refer to:

• Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament
• High voltage traveling arc, an electrical effect, classic in cinematic portrayal of laboratories
• Crepuscular rays shining down a hole in the clouds
• Jacob's Ladder (film), a 1990 psychological thriller
• Jacob's Ladder (novel), a 1998 novel of Civil War Virginia by Donald McCaig
• 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
• Jacob's ladder (knife), a three-part pocket knife
• Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), a ladder made of eight logs of gradually increasing height
• "Jacob's Ladder", a string figure pattern (children's game)
• "A Ladder to Heaven", a 2002 South Park episode
• Polemonium, a genus of flowering plants, with common names "Jacob's Ladder" and "Abscess root"
• Jacob's ladder (manifold), a noncompact surface in mathematics
• Colloquial name for the UK Beef cut of thin rib
• the Jacob's Ladder or Frenum piercing, a kind of male genital piercing
• Jacob's ladder surface in mathematics

Places

• A set of stairs between Military Road and Royal Parade in Ramsgate, Kent, England
• A set of stone steps down to the lowest bridge at the waterfalls at Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales
• Jacob's Ladder Beach, in Sidmouth, Devon, England
• A scenic path in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England
• A scenic path in Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, England
• A path on Wenlock Edge at Eaton-under-Heywood, Shropshire, England
• A hillside stairway between Jamestown, Saint Helena (British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean) and Half Tree Hollow
• U.S. Route 20 as it crosses the Berkshire Hills between the towns of Chester and Lee in western Massachusetts
• A set of stairs and the associated Jacobs Ladder Bridge between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland, New Zealand
• A set of stairs in Saint Clair, in Dunedin, New Zealand
• A set of stairs from Mounts Bay Road to Kings Park, Western Australia
• A set of stairs in Falmouth, Cornwall
• A trestle on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, New Hampshire

Music

• "Jacob's Ladder" (Huey Lewis and the News song), a 1987 song written by Bruce Hornsby, initially recorded by Huey Lewis and the News, and subsequently also by Hornsby
• "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Rush, on the album Permanent Waves
• "Jacob's Ladder" (Not in My Name), a song by Chumbawamba, on the album Readymades
• "Jacob's Ladder", a song by The Monochrome Set
• "Jacob's Ladder" (Mark Wills song), a 1996 song by Mark Wills, on his self-titled debut album
• "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Converge, on the album Unloved and Weeded Out
• "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Patrick Wolf, on the album Wind in the Wires
• "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Fucked Up, on the album Hidden World
• Die Jakobsleiter, an opera by Arnold Schoenberg
• "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder", a spiritual/gospel/folk song
• Jacob's Ladder (band), an American rock band
• Jacob's Ladder (Dreadlock Pussy song)