Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βένθος ‎(bénthos) Poetic

Noun

βᾰ́θος • ‎(báthos) n ‎(genitive βᾰ́θεος or βᾰ́θους); third declension

1. Extension in space: depth, height, breadth, fullness
2. profundity

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: βάθος n ‎(váthos, “rank, grade”)

References

•  βάθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βάθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βάθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «βάθος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G899”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abyss idem, page 5.
  • depth idem, page 213.
  • gulf idem, page 379.
  • profundity idem, page 653.
  • yawning idem, page 995.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

βάθος • ‎(váthos) n ‎(plural βάθη)

1. (dimension) bottom, depth (of sea, etc)

   Η λίμνη έχει μεγάλο βάθος.‎ ― I límni échei megálo váthos. ― The lake is very deep.

2. (dimension) depth (of a cave, well, etc)

   Το σπήλαιο έχει ανυπολόγιστο βάθος.‎ ― To spílaio échei anypológisto váthos. ― The cave has an unknown depth.

3. (figuratively) profundity, background (of character)

Declension

Related terms

• βαθύς ‎(vathýs, “deep”)