Βαπτιστής
baptizer
‘baptizer’ 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 Genitive-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 5 times (42%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (33%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G910 appears — 12 distinct verses across 3 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 7 verses
- Matthew 3:1 βαπτιστὴς n nom sg masc In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
- Matthew 11:11 βαπτιστοῦ n gen sg masc Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
- Matthew 11:12 βαπτιστοῦ n gen sg masc From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matthew 14:2 βαπτιστής n nom sg masc and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him."
- Matthew 14:8 βαπτιστοῦ n gen sg masc She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."
- Matthew 16:14 βαπτιστήν n acc sg masc They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
- Matthew 17:13 βαπτιστοῦ n gen sg masc Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.
Mark 2 verses
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 7:20 βαπτιστὴς n nom sg masc When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"
- Luke 7:33 βαπτιστὴς n nom sg masc For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
- Luke 9:19 βαπτιστήν n acc sg masc They answered, "'John the Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,' and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."
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.
At its core, Βαπτιστης (Baptistḗs) means “baptizer.” The word gravitates to Matthew (58%), then Luke and Mark. It appears 12 verses across 3 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Matthew 3:1, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G910 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 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: Baptist 13×
- American Standard Version: Baptist 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baptist 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baptist 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G910 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G910 across 13 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G910 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G910 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a baptiser
- one who administers the rite of baptism
- the surname of John, the forerunner of Christ
Word origin
Derived from βαπτιζω (baptízō) (G907) — to baptize.
From G907 ; a baptizer as an epithet of christ´ s forerunner : - Baptist.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G910 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βαπτιστοῦ baptistoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:11 | 5 |
| βαπτιστήν baptistḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 16:14 | 3 |
| βαπτιστὴς baptistḕs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 3:1 | 3 |
| βαπτιστής baptistḗs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G910, 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.
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Shares the same root
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