Word Summary
bythos: the bottom, the depth
Original Word: βυθόςTransliteration: bythos
Phonetic Spelling: (boo-thos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: the bottom, the depth
Meaning: the bottom, the depth
Strong's Concordance
deep.
A variation of bathos; depth, i.e. (by implication) the sea -- deep.
see GREEK bathos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1037: βυθόςβυθός,
βυθοῦ,
ὁ,
the bottom (of a ditch or trench,
Xenophon, oec. 19, 11);
the bottom or depth of the sea, often in Greek writings from
Aeschylus Prom. 432 down;
the sea itself, the deep sea:
2 Corinthians 11:25, as in
Psalm 106:24 (); so Latinprofundum in Lucan, Phars. 2, 680 "profundioravidens."