Greek noun (masculine) · G910
Βαπτιστής
Baptistesbap-tis-tace'
one who baptizes
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Baptistḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G910is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G910
a baptizer, as an epithet of Christ's forerunner
The King James renders it: Baptist.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Baptistes is rendered "one who baptizes". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:1In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
Matthew 3:1βαπτιστὴς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Baptist12
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βαπτιστοῦ5
- βαπτιστήν3
- βαπτιστὴς3
- βαπτιστής1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular5N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
Matthew
seven uses
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
- βαπτιστὴςbaptistesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- βαπτιστοῦbaptistounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.
- βαπτιστοῦbaptistounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
- βαπτιστήςbaptistesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
- βαπτιστοῦbaptistounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
- βαπτιστήνbaptistennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Then the disciples understood that He was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
- βαπτιστοῦbaptistounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Mark
two uses
At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
- βαπτιστοῦbaptistounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
- βαπτιστήνbaptistennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Luke
three uses
When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”
- βαπτιστὴςbaptistesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
- βαπτιστὴςbaptistesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”
- βαπτιστήνbaptistennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Baptist
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.