noun · neuter
loutrem
Strong’sG3067
a bath, washing, baptism
stem loutr-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
λουτρόν, -οῦ, τό
(< λούω), [in LXX: Ca 4:2 6:5, (6) (רַחְצָה), Si 31 (34):25*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3067 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidloo-tron'
a bath, i.e. (figuratively), baptism
Fromfrom G3068;
King Jameswashing.
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
in Refs 8th c.BC+ always λοετρόν, but contraction form in Refs 8th c.BC+; Doric dialect λωτρόν, Refs 5th c.AD+: (λούω):— bath, bathing-place, Refs 8th c.BC+ hot bath, Refs 8th c.BC+; σίτοισι καὶ λουτροῖσι in matters of eating and washing, Refs 8th c.BC+: in plural, bathing-establishment, τὰ δημόσια λ. Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 water for bathing or washing, ὑδάτων ἐνεγκεῖν λουτρά Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν λουτροῖς while bathing, Refs 5th c.BC+; λοῦσαί τινα λουτρόν give one a bath, wash one with water, Refs 5th c.BC+; λοῦσθαι λουτρόν bathe, Refs 4th c.BC+; νυμφικὰ λουτρά the conveying of water to the bride (compare λουτροφόρος), NT+2nd c.AD+
II in Poets, ={σπονδαί}, libations to the dead, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | loutrem | loutreim |
| of, belonging to genitive | loutreu1×λουτροῦ | loutreiu |
| to, for dative | loutre1×λουτρῷ | loutrei |
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
loutre 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
loutreu“washing”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Titus 3:5… tem autou elesem sōzata nin dia loutreu palingenesiau kai anakainōsiau pneumeu hagieu,… according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by …
loutre“washing”to, fordative singular1×
Ephesians 5:26hina autan hagiazateia katharizarantos te loutre teu hudeu en rēme,… sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,