βαθύς
deep
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G901 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts 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.
βαθυς (bathýs) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “deep.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 4 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 24:1. Sharing its root, it stands alongside βασις, βαΐον and βαρος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G901 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 25%
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: Deep 2×
- American Standard Version: Deep 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deep 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deep 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G901 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G901 across 3 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G901 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G901 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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.
- deep
Word origin
Derived from βασις (básis) (G939) — foot.
From the base of G939 ; profound (as going down) literally or figuratively : - deep very early.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G901 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βαθέα bathéa | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 2:24 | 1 |
| βαθέως bathéōs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 24:1 | 1 |
| βαθεῖ batheî | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 20:9 | 1 |
| βαθύ bathý | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | John 4:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G901, 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
- βαΐον baḯon G902 palm branch
- βαρος báros G922 heaviness
- βασανος básanos G931 touchstone
- βασιλευς basileús G935 king
- βασταζω bastázō G941 to take up
- βεβαιος bébaios G949 firm
- βεβηλος bébēlos G952 profane
- βημα bēma G968 judgment seat
- βωμος bōmós G1041 elevated place
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βαθυς appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 8 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 11:8 βαθύς
- Psalms 63:7 βαθύς
- Proverbs 18:4 βαθύς
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 βαθύς
- Isaiah 30:33 βαθύς
- Jeremiah 17:9 βαθύς
- Ezekiel 23:32 βαθύς
- Daniel 2:22 βαθύς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G901) 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 11:8 βαθύς They are high as heaven. What can you do? Deeper than Sheol: what can you know?
- Job 12:22 βαθύς He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
- Psalms 63:7 βαθύς For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
- Psalms 129:1 βαθύς Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
- Proverbs 18:4 βαθύς The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
- Proverbs 20:5 βαθύς Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Proverbs 22:14 βαθύς The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
- Proverbs 25:3 βαθύς As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 7:24 βαθύς That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- Isaiah 30:33 βαθύς For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.
- Isaiah 31:6 βαθύς Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
- Jeremiah 17:9 βαθύς The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- Ezekiel 23:32 βαθύς Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.
- Ezekiel 27:34 βαθύς In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
- Ezekiel 32:21 βαθύς The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
- Ezekiel 32:22 βαθύς Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
- Daniel 2:22 βαθύς he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G901) 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.
