Lexical Summary baptismos: (the act of) a dipping or washing Original Word: βαπτισμόςTransliteration: baptismos Phonetic Spelling: (bap-tis-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: (the act of) a dipping or washing Meaning: washings -- the act of a dipping or washing Strong's Concordance baptism, washing. From baptizo; ablution (ceremonial or Christian) -- baptism, washing. see GREEK baptizo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 909: βαπτισμόςβαπτισμός, βαπτισμου, ὁ (βαπτίζω), a washing, purification effected by means of water: Mark 7:4, 8 (R G L Tr in brackets) (ξεστῶν καί ποτηρίων); of the washings prescribed by the Mosaic law, Hebrews 9:10. βαπτισμῶν διδαχῆς equivalent to διδαχῆς περί βαπτισμῶν, Hebrews 6:2 (where L text, WH text, βαπτισμῶν διδαχῆς), which seems to mean an exposition of the difference between the washings prescribed by the Mosaic law and Christian baptism. (Among secular writings Josephus alone, Antiquities 18, 5, 2, uses the word, and of John's baptism; (respecting its interchange with βάπτισμα cf. examples in Sophocles Lexicon, under the word 2 and Lightfoot on Colossians 2:12, where L marginal reading Tr read βαπτισμός; cf. Trench, § xcix.).) |
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