UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: βαπτίζω[b] and βαπτισμός[b] should not be confused in meaning with βαπτίζω[a] and βαπτισμός[a] to wash, to purify (53.31: βαπτίζω / 53.31: βαπτισμός / 53.31: καταβαπτίζω). Both sets of meanings involve purification, but only βαπτίζω[b] and βαπτισμός[b] involve initiation into a religious community.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: βαπτισμός; -οῦ

Related lemmas: βάπτω

Sense 1: to wash, to purify, washing, purification

Semantic entry: 53.31

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Purify, Cleanse

Definition: to wash (in some contexts, possibly by dipping into water), with a view to making objects ritually acceptable

Notes: There is some doubt as to the precise extent to which βαπτίζω[a], καταβαπτίζω, and βαπτισμός[a] in RV MRK 7:4 · LV MRK 7:4 · Read together MRK 7:4 involve ritual cleansing, but the context would seem to imply this, particularly in view of the relationship of such washing to the rules followed by Jews in general and Pharisees in particular.

MRK 7:4: RV MRK 7:4 · LV MRK 7:4 · Read together MRK 7:4

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OET-RV MRK 7:4

4 They won’t eat at the market if they can’t do that first, and have many other regulations about ceremonial washing of cups and jugs and copper containers.)

OET-LV MRK 7:4

4 and from the_marketplace they _are_ not _eating if they _may_ not _wash, and many other things there _is which they _received to _be _taking _hold _of, washings of _cups and pitchers and copper _kettles.
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HEB 6:2: RV HEB 6:2 · LV HEB 6:2 · Read together HEB 6:2

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OET-RV HEB 6:2

2 of teachings about immersion in water and prayerfully placing your hands on people, and the resurrection of the dead followed by eternal judgement.

OET-LV HEB 6:2

2 of _washings teaching, and of _laying _on of _hands, and of_the_resurrection of_the_dead, and of _judgement eternal.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 7:4 · LV MRK 7:4 · Read together MRK 7:4

HEB: RV HEB 6:2 · RV HEB 9:10 · LV HEB 6:2 · LV HEB 9:10 · Read together HEB 6:2 · Read together HEB 9:10

Sense 2: to baptize, baptism

Semantic entry: 53.41

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Baptize

Definition: to employ water in a religious ceremony designed to symbolize purification and initiation on the basis of repentance{N:001}

Notes: According to the Didache (early second century) different forms of baptism were practiced in the early church, but with evident preference given to immersion.|The baptism practiced by John the Baptist would seem to reflect far more the Jewish pattern of ritual washing than the type of baptism employed by Christians, which constituted a symbol of initiation into the Christian community on the basis of belief in and loyalty to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. There seems, however, to be no reason to employ a different expression for baptism in the case of John than in the case of the early Christians. Most translators actually employ a transliterated form of the Greek term βαπτίζω, but in some languages this is both awkward as well as inappropriate, especially if another term or expression has already been employed and is widely accepted by groups practicing various types or forms of baptism. In some languages, for example, one may employ an expression such as ‘to enter the water’ or ‘to undergo the ritual involving water.’ Such expressions do not necessarily imply the quantity of water nor the particular means by which water is applied.

COL 2:12: RV COL 2:12 · LV COL 2:12 · Read together COL 2:12

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OET-RV COL 2:12