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Βαπτιστής

Baptistḗs · G910 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. baptizer

    (Derivative of βαπτίζω ‘to baptize,’) One who baptizes

    Examples

    Matthew 3:1 Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

    Matthew 11:11 “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

    Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been treated violently, and violent men take it by force.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

11 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Baptizer53.42
Used as the fixed epithet of John, as in the repeated title John the Baptist in Matthew 3:1, 11:11, and 14:2.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βάπτω báptō · G911 · to dip in · 4×βαπτίζω baptízō · G907 · to wash, to purify, washing · 76×βάπτισμα báptisma · G908 · to baptize, baptism · 20×ΒαπτιστήςBaptistḗs · G910βαπτισμός baptismós · G909 · to wash, to purify, washing · 3×ἐμβάπτω embáptō · G1686 · to dip in · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βαπτιστοῦ, ὁ (βαπτίζω), a baptizer; one who administers the rite of baptism; the surname…
βαπτιστοῦ, ὁ (βαπτίζω), a baptizer; one who administers the rite of baptism; the surname of John, the forerunner of Christ: Mt 3:1; Mt 11:11f; (Mt 14:2, Mt 14:8; Mt 16:14; Mt 17:13); Mk 6:24 (T Tr WH τοῦ βαπτίζοντος), Mk 6:25; Mk 8:28; Lk 7:20, Lk 7:28 (T Tr WH omit), Lk 7:38; Lk 9:19; also given him by Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 2, and found in no other secular writings (Joh. d. Täufer by Breest (1881), Köhler (1884).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Baptize12 occurrences

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

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