Word

βάπτω

báptō · G911 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to dip in

To dip an object in a liquid

Examples
Luke 16:24 “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
John 13:26 Jesus then answered, “That man is the one for whom I shall dip the piece of bread and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the piece of bread, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Revelation 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
ἐγώI, we 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ψωμίονa piece of bread 2
ἄκρονextreme boundary 1

To or for whomIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅςwho, which, that 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 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 1 word

טָבַל ṭâbal · H2881 · to dip, to soak, to bathe: טָבַל (ṭâbal, H2881) טָבַל is the standard Hebrew term for dipping or plunging into liquid, directly corresponding to βάπτω (báptō, G911) βάπτω's core sense of immersing or moistening with fluid; both denote the literal physical action of submerging an object into a liquid medium.

Semantic domains 3 entries

To dip in47.11: Used literally of dipping something into a liquid, as of the rich man asking that Lazarus dip his finger in water in Luke 16:24 and Jesus dipping the piece of bread in John 13:26.
To sprinkle, sprinkling47.16: Used figuratively of a garment marked with blood, as of the robe dipped in blood in Revelation 19:13, drawn from the same broad range of applying liquid as the sprinkling sense below.
To sprinkle, to sprinkle around47.17: Used within the same figurative image of a blood-marked robe in Revelation 19:13, distinguished from the entries above by the manner of application implied.

Word family 6 words

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

βάπτωbáptō · G911βαπτίζω baptízō · G907 · to wash, to purify, washing · 76×βάπτισμα báptisma · G908 · to baptize, baptism · 20×Βαπτιστής Baptistḗs · G910 · baptizer · 12×βαπτισμός baptismós · G909 · to wash, to purify, washing · 3×ἐμβάπτω embáptō · G1686 · to dip in · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (future βάψω, Jn 13:26 T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐβαψα; perfect passive participle βεβαμμένος;…

: (future βάψω, Jn 13:26 T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐβαψα; perfect passive participle βεβαμμένος; in Greek writings from Homer down; in the Sept. for טָבַל;
a. to dip, dip in, immerse: τί, Jn 13:26 (but in 26 Lachmann ἐμβάψας, as in 26b L text R G); followed by a genitive of the thing into which the object is dipped (because only a part of it is touched by the act of dipping), Lk 16:24 (cf. ἅπτεσθαι τίνος, λούεσθαι ποταμοιο, Homer, Iliad 5, 6; 6, 508; cf. Buttmann, § 132, 25; (Winers Grammar, § 30, 8. c.)).
b. to dip into dye, to dye, color: ἱμάτιον αἵματι, Rev 19:13 (Tdf. περιρεραμμενον, see under the word περιρραίνω; WH ῥεραντισμενον, see ῤαντίζω). (Herodotus 7, 67; Anth. 11, 68; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 6, 1.) (Compare: ἐμβάπτω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Use of Liquids4 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

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