βαθύς
bathýs · G901 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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deep
Pertaining to being considerably below a surface
ExamplesJohn 4:11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?
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extremely, exceedingly great, very very
An extreme point on a scale of extent
ExamplesLuke 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Acts 20:9 And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor, and was picked up dead.
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deep secrets, secrets difficult to find out about
(Figurative extension of meaning of βαθύς ‘deep,’) The content of knowledge which is very difficult to know
ExamplesRevelation 2:24 ‘But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΣατανᾶςSatan 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γινώσκωto know 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φρέαρwell, pit 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 3 words
- עָמֹק ʻâmôq · H6013 · deep, profound, unsearchable
- Hebrew עָמֹק and Greek βαθύς both denote depth in the primary literal sense (spatial extension downward) and extend to figurative/metaphorical depth (profundity, inscrutability); they are direct translation equivalents across the semantic range.
- מַעֲמָק maʻămâq · H4615 · depths
- Hebrew מַעֲמָק denotes physical or figurative depth/deep place, serving as the direct semantic equivalent of Greek βαθύς in its adjectival 'deep' sense across literal and metaphorical registers.
- עָמַק ʻâmaq · H6009 · to make deep, to do (something) in a deep place
- Hebrew עָמַק and Greek βαθύς both denote depth or profundity in spatial or metaphorical senses, representing direct cross-linguistic equivalents where the Greek term renders the Hebrew concept in LXX translation contexts.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Deep secrets, secrets difficult to find out about28.76
- Used figuratively of hidden or esoteric teaching, as of the deep things of Satan referred to in Revelation 2:24.
- Extremely, exceedingly great, very very78.22
- Used as an intensifier of an early hour, as of the women coming to the tomb at early dawn in Luke 24:1.
- Deep81.10
- Used literally of physical depth, as of the well Jesus tells the Samaritan woman is deep in John 4:11 and the deep sleep that overcomes Eutychus in Acts 20:9.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, deeply: ὄρθρου βαθέως namely, ὄντος (cf. Bernhardy (1829), p. 338), deep in the…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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