noun · masculine
bathmos
Strong’sG898
a step, a stage, a position
stem bathm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† βαθμός, -οῦ, ὁ, Ion. form of βασμός
(< βαίνω, to step), [in LXX I Ki 5:5 (מִפְתָּן), IV Ki 20:9, 10, 11 (מַעֲלָה), Si 6:36*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G898 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbath-mos'
a step, i.e. (figuratively) grade (of dignity)
Fromfrom the same as G899;
King Jamesdegree.
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
or βασμός, ὁ, (βαίνω) step, threshold, LXX+5th c.BC+; degree on the dial, LXX; fifteen degrees of the zodiac, Refs 2nd c.AD+; interval in a musical scale, Refs 4th c.AD+
2 rung of a ladder, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 base or plinth of a tower, Refs
II metaphorically, step, degree in rank (οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι NT+2nd c.AD+; simply, degree, τολμημάτων βαθμοί Refs 1st c.AD+; step in an argument, Refs 6th c.AD+; of a genealogy, ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν β. two steps farther back, i.e. farther back than one's grandfather, Refs 1st c.AD+
III tax paid on stairs, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | bathmos | bathmois |
| object accusative | bathmon1×βαθμὸν | bathmoin |
| direct address vocative | bathmor | bathmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bathmou | bathmoiu |
| to, for dative | bathmo | bathmoi |
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
bathmo 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
bathmon“standing”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Timothy 3:13tois gar kalōs diakonarantois bathmon heautoi kalon peripoiolō kai pollan parrēsian …… deacons acquire for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith …