βάθος
depth
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (38%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (38%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (13%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G899 appears — 8 distinct verses across 7 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 8:39 βάθος n nom sg neut nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 11:33 βάθος n nom sg neut Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun βαθος centers on the idea of “depth.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 13:5. Spanning 8 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Romans dominates its distribution — 2 of 8 verses. Related forms include βαθυς, βαθυνω and βαθμος. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G899 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 63%
- Gospels 3 verses · 38%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Depth 4×, Deep 2×
- American Standard Version: Depth 3×, Deep 2×, Deep things 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deep 3×, Depth 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deep 4×, Depth 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G899 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G899 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G899 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G899 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- depth, height
Word origin
Derived from βαθυς (bathýs) (G901) — deep.
From the same as G901 ; profundity that is (by implication) extent ; (figuratively) mystery : - deep (-ness things) depth.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G899 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βάθος báthos | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 13:5 | 6 |
| βάθη báthē | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 2:10 | 1 |
| βάθους báthous | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 8:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G899, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βαθος appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 10 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 28:11 βάθος
- Psalms 68:3 βάθος
- Proverbs 18:3 βάθος
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 βάθος
- Isaiah 7:11 βάθος
- Ezekiel 26:20 βάθος
- Amos 9:3 βάθος
- Jonah 2:4 βάθος
- Micah 7:19 βάθος
- Zechariah 10:11 βάθος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G899) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 28:11 βάθος He binds the streams that they don't trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
- Psalms 68:3 βάθος But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
- Psalms 68:15 βάθος The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
- Proverbs 18:3 βάθος When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, And with shame comes disgrace.
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 βάθος That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- Isaiah 7:11 βάθος "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
- Isaiah 51:10 βάθος Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Ezekiel 26:20 βάθος then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
- Ezekiel 31:14 βάθος to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 31:18 βάθος To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 32:18 βάθος Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:24 βάθος There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 43:13 βάθος These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
- Ezekiel 43:14 βάθος From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
- Amos 9:3 βάθος Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
- Jonah 2:4 βάθος I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
- Micah 7:19 βάθος He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Zechariah 10:11 βάθος He will pass through the sea of affliction, And will strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt will depart.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G899) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.