Bible word study

Bapto (Strong’s G911): Meaning in the Bible

Bapto (βάπτω) is the Greek word numbered G911 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid; in the New Testament only in a qualified or special sense, i.e. (literally) to moisten (a part of one's person), or (by implication) to stain (as with dye). In the King James Bible it is translated dip..

• Original wordβάπτω
• Transliterationbáptō
• Pronunciationbap'-to
• Strong’s numberG911
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primary verb;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Bapto appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Bapto (G911) stands behind 3 English renderings in 3 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (1), John (1), Revelation (1).

How the King James Bible renders Bapto, by count

• dipped1 of 3 (33 percent)
• he may dip1 of 3 (33 percent)
• when i have dipped1 of 3 (33 percent)

Three places to read Bapto

• Luke 16:24 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.
• John 13:26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
• Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

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 Bapto 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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