Word Summary
bathmos: a step, degree
Original Word: βαθμόςTransliteration: bathmos
Phonetic Spelling: (bath-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a step, degree
Meaning: a step, degree
Strong's Concordance
degree.
From the same as bathos; a step, i.e. (figuratively) grade (of dignity) -- degree.
see GREEK bathos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.)