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To dip

βάπτωStrong’s G0911

baptō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Baptō is the Greek word usually translated “may dip”, “dip” and “having dipped”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”
Luke 16:24 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “may dip”, “dip” and “having dipped”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • he may dip 1
  • will dip 1
  • having dipped 1
  • dipped 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • John 1
  • Revelation 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

βάπτω baptō · to dip

βάπτω, [in LXX chiefly for טבל ;] (a) to dip: Luk.16:24, Jhn.13:26 (ἐμβ-, L); (b) to dip in dye, to dye: Rev.19:13 (Rec.; ῥεραντισμένον, WH; περιρεραμμένον, T; ῥεραμμένον, Swete, in l., which see). † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “dip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DIP, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive dipped or dipt. [G.]

  1. To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance; to put into a fluid and withdraw.“The priest shall dip his finger int he blood” Leviticus 4:6“Let him dip his foot in oil” Deuteronomy 33:24
  2. To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid, as to dip water from a boiler; often with out, as to dip out water.
  3. To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used.
  4. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “dip”
  1. To moisten; to wet. [Unusual.]
  2. To baptize by immersion.

DIP, verb intransitive

  1. To sink; to emerge in a liquid.
  2. To enter; to pierce.
  3. To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.
  4. To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history.
  5. To choose by chance; to thrust and take.
  6. To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]

DIP, noun

Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression; as the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course; called also the pitch.

    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.