Lexicon bathmos: a step, degree Original Word: βαθμός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: bathmos Phonetic Spelling: (bath-mos') Short Definition: a step, a stage, a position Definition: a step (of a stairway); hence: a stage in a career, a position. HELPS word-Studies 898 bathmós – properly, a step (tread) in a staircase; (figuratively) a degree, rank, grade (used only in 1 Tim 3:13). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as basisDefinitiona step, degree NASB Translationstanding (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 898: βαθμόςβαθμός, βαθμου, ὁ (from the obsolete βάω equivalent to βαίνω, like σταθμός (from ἵστημι), threshold, step; of a grade of dignity and wholesome influence in the church ( R. V. standing), 1 Timothy 3:13 (cf. Ellicott at the passage). (Used by (the Sept. 1 Samuel 5:5; 2 Kings 20:9; also Sir. 6:36); Strabo ( Plutarch), Lucian, Appian, Artemidorus Daldianus (others); cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 324.)
Strong's degree. From the same as bathos; a step, i.e. (figuratively) grade (of dignity) -- degree. see GREEK bathos |
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