noun · masculine
baptistos
Strong’sG910
the baptizer, the Baptist
stem baptist-12 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
βαπτιστής means a baptizer, one who baptizes 1234. In the New Testament it is used as a title, "the Baptist," for John, the forerunner of Jesus 1234.
The same word is also used figuratively of the Passion (Christ's suffering and death) 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G910 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbap-tis-tace'
a baptizer, as an epithet of Christ's forerunner
Fromfrom G907;
King JamesBaptist.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
one that dips: baptizer, ὁ β. the Baptist, NT+1st c.AD+: metaphorically of the Passion, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | baptistos4×βαπτιστὴς | baptistois |
| object accusative | baptiston3×βαπτιστήν | baptistoin |
| direct address vocative | baptistor | baptistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | baptistou5×βαπτιστοῦ | baptistoiu |
| to, for dative | baptisto | baptistoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
baptisto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
baptistos“baptist”subjectnominative singular4×
Matthew 3:1… tai hēmerai ekeinai paragenotō Iōannos tos baptistos kērussarōntos en ta erēma tau IoudaiauIn those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of …
Matthew 14:2… paidoi autou; Houtos atō Iōannos tos baptistos; autos egerita apo toiu nekroiu, kai …… his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead …
Luke 7:20… auton tois androis legala; Iōannos tos baptistos apostelata nin pros sin legarōntos; Sis …… to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You …
Luke 7:33erchatē gar Iōannos tos baptistos mē esthiarōntos arton mēte pinarōntos oinon, …For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking …
baptiston“baptist”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 16:14… de legala; Tois men Iōannon ton baptiston, allosois de Ēliaon, heterois de Ieremion …They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others …
Mark 8:28… legala auto legarōntois hoti Iōannon ton baptiston, kai allosois Ēliaon, allosois de hoti …They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others …
Luke 9:19tois de apokrinirantois legala; Iōannon ton baptiston, allosois de Ēliaon, allosois de hoti …They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others …
baptistou“baptist”of, belonging togenitive singular5×
Matthew 11:11… en gennētoi gunaikaiu megoteros Iōannou tou baptistou; tos de mikroteros en ta basileia …… no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the …
Matthew 11:12apo de taiu hēmeraiu Iōannou tou baptistou heōs arti tas basileias toiu ouranoiu …From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven …
Matthew 14:8… epi pinaxo tan kefalan Iōannou tou baptistou.… platter the head of John the Baptist.”
Matthew 17:13… tois mathētois hoti peri Iōannou tou baptistou legata autoi.… speaking to them about John the Baptist.
Mark 6:25… epi pinaxo tan kefalan Iōannou tou baptistou.… me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”