noun · masculine

buthos

Greekβυθός (buthos)

Strong’sG1037

the deep sea

stem buth-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

open sea1×

What it means

βυθός, -οῦ, ὁ,

[in LXX: Ex 15:5, Ne 9:11 (מְצוֹלָה), Ps 67 (68):22 68 (69):2, 15 106 (107):24 (מְצוּלָה)*;]

1. the bottom.

2. the depth of the sea, the deep sea: II Co 11:25.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1037 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidboo-thos'

depth, i.e. (by implication) the sea

Froma variation of G899;

King Jamesdeep.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	buthos	buthois
object accusative	buthon	buthoin
direct address vocative	buthor	buthoir
of, belonging to genitive	buthou	buthoiu
to, for dative	butho1×βυθῷ	buthoi

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

buthstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

butho 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

butho“open sea”to, fordative singular1×

2 Corinthians 11:25“open sea”tris rabdizima, hapax lithazima, tris nauagama, nuchthēmerem en to butho poiamē;Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.