βαπτίζω
to baptize
‘to baptize’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
9 verses where G907 appears in the Present tense in the Book of John. 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.
John
- John 1:25 βαπτίζεις pres act ind 2sg They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 1:26 βαπτίζω pres act ind 1sg John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
- John 1:28 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- John 1:31 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."
- John 1:33 βαπτίζειν βαπτίζων pres act inf pres act ptcp nom sg masc I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
- John 3:23 βαπτίζων ἐβαπτίζοντο pres act ptcp nom sg masc impf pass ind 3pl John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
- John 3:26 βαπτίζει pres act ind 3sg They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
- John 4:1 βαπτίζει pres act ind 3sg Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 10:40 βαπτίζων pres act ptcp nom sg masc He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
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.
βαπτιζω — transliterated baptízō — is a Greek word carrying the sense “to baptize.” Debuting at Matthew 3:6, it then recurs through the corpus. With 64 verses in 8 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (30% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. See the sense tree, 64-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G907 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 →
- 64
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 64 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #220
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 220 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 64 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 64 distinct verses.
- Gospels 35 verses · 55%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 27 verses · 42%
- Johannine 11 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 16%
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: Baptized 12×, Be baptized 12×, Baptize 6×
- American Standard Version: Baptized 12×, Be baptized 9×, Were baptized 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be baptized 8×, Baptize 7×, Baptized 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baptized 8×, Baptizing 8×, Be baptized 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 renderings that appear 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G907 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 renderings that appear 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G907 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 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 3 senses 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.
- to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
- to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe
- to overwhelm Not to be confused with 911…
Word origin
Derived from βαπτω (báptō) (G911) — to dip.
From a derivative of G911 ; to make whelmed (that is fully wet ); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism : - baptist baptize wash.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 28 distinct written forms G907 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G907, 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
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 βαπτιζω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Kings 5:14 βαπτίζω
- Isaiah 21:4 βαπτίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G907) 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.
- 2 Kings 5:14 βαπτίζω Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- Isaiah 21:4 βαπτίζω My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G907) 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.
