Depth
βάθοςStrong’s G0899bathos
Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament
In short
Bathos is the Greek word usually translated “depth”, “deep” and “depths”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.
“Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:”
Meaning
Usually translated “depth”, “deep” and “depths”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- depth 5
- deep 2
- depths 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Luke 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
- 2 Corinthians 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 4:5And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
- Luke 5:4Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- Romans 8:39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- 1 Corinthians 2:10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
- 2 Corinthians 8:2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Greek dictionary
βάθος bathos · depth
βάθος, -εος (-ους), τό, [in LXX for מְצוּלָה ,תַּחְתִּי, etc. ;] depth: Mat.13:5, Mrk.4:5, Rom.8:39, Eph.3:18; τὸ β., the deep sea: Luk.5:4; metaphorically, β. πλούτου . . . Θεοῦ, Rom.11:33; τὰ β. τ. Θεοῦ (the Divine counsels), 1Co.2:10; ἡ κατὰ βάθους πτωχεία, deep poverty, 2Co.8:2.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “depth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEPTH, noun
- Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards.
- A deep place.
- The sea, the ocean.“The depth closed me round about” Jonah 2:5
- The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.“When he set a compass on the face of the depth” Proverbs 8:27
All definitions
- The middle or highth of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.
- Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.
- Unsearchableness; infinity.“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God” Romans 11:33
- The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
- Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.
- The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as a depth of three men or six men.
- depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.