noun · neuter
bathem
Strong’sG899
depth, a depth, a deep
stem bath-8 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
βάθος, -εος (-ους), τό,
[in LXX for מְצוּלָה,תַּחְתִּי, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G899 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbath'-os
profundity, i.e. (by implication) extent; (figuratively) mystery
Fromfrom the same as G901;
King Jamesdeep(-ness, things), depth.
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
(βαθύς) depth or height, accusative as measured up or down, Ταρτάρου βάθη Refs 5th c.BC+; βάθους μετέχειν to be a solid, possessing depth as well as length and breadth, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to μῆκος, πλάτος, Refs 4th c.BC+: with Preps., ἐκ βάθεος in depth, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ βάθους through and through, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ βάθος in a descending scale, metaphorically of causation, Refs 5th c.AD+: frequently in military sense, depth of a line of battle, Refs 5th c.BC+in depth of line, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. τριχῶν, of long thick hair, Refs 5th c.BC+; interior of a country, Refs 1st c.BC+; depth, of perspective in a picture, Refs 5th c.BC+depths, Refs 5th c.BC+; deep water, opposed to shallows near shore, LXX+NT+4th c.BC+
b Astron., ={ταπείνωμα}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 metaphorically, κακῶν ὁρῶν β. NT+5th c.BC+; depth of mind, β. τι ἔχειν γενναῖον, of Parmenides, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν βάθει πόσιος deep in drink, LXX+3rd c.BC+; τὰ β. τοῦ θεοῦ, τοῦ Σατανᾶ, NT
3 of literal style, bathos, ὕψους ἢ β. Refs 3rd 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 or object direct | bathem3×βάθος | batheim |
| of, belonging to genitive | batheu1×βάθους | batheiu |
| to, for dative | bathe | bathei |
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
bathe 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
bathem“depth”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Romans 8:39oute hupsōmem oute bathem oute tinas ktisias heteras duneti nin …neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation …
Romans 11:33Ō bathem ploutou kai sofiau kai gnōsiau theou; …O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom …
Ephesians 3:18… platem kai mēkem kai hupsem kai bathem,… length and width and height and depth
batheu“extreme”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 8:2“extreme”… tau charau autoiu kai tas kata batheu ptōcheias autoiu perisseuata eis tem ploutem …In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich …
bathem3×
Matthew 13:5“depth”… eutheōs exanatellata dia tem mē echarō bathem gēau,… soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
Mark 4:5“depth”… euthuos exanatellata dia tem mē echarō bathem gēau;… much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
Luke 5:4… pros ton Simōnon; Epanagasar eis tem bathem kai chalavar teim diktueim vu eis …… said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets …
batheim1×
1 Corinthians 2:10“depths”… gar pneumem panteim eraunatō, kai teim batheim tou theou.… Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.