Bible word study

Baptizo (Strong’s G907): Meaning in the Bible

Baptizo (βαπτίζω) is the Greek word numbered G907 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e. fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism. In the King James Bible it is translated Baptist, baptize, wash..

• Original wordβαπτίζω
• Transliterationbaptízō
• Pronunciationbap-tid'-zo
• Strong’s numberG907
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from a derivative of G911;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Baptizo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Baptizo (G907) stands behind 89 English renderings in 65 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (23), Mark (13), John (13).

How the King James Bible renders Baptizo, by count

• baptized49 of 89 (55 percent)
• baptize9 of 89 (10 percent)
• baptizing4 of 89 (4 percent)
• am baptized with3 of 89 (3 percent)
• baptizeth2 of 89 (2 percent)
• shall be baptized2 of 89 (2 percent)

Three places to read Baptizo

• Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Luke 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
• Acts 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Baptizo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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