Word Summary
loutron: a washing, a bath
Original Word: λουτρόνTransliteration: loutron
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-tron')
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a washing, a bath
Meaning: a washing, a bath
Strong's Concordance
washing.
From louo; a bath, i.e. (figuratively), baptism -- washing.
see GREEK louo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3067: λουτρόνλουτρόν,
λουτροῦ,
τό (
λούω), from
Homer down (who uses
λοετρόν, from the uncontracted form
λοέω),
a bathing, bath, i. e. as well the act of bathing (a sense disputed by some (cf. Ellicott on
Ephesians 5:26)), as the place; used in the N. T. and in ecclesiastical writings of
baptism (for examples see
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word): with
τοῦ ὕδατος added,
Ephesians 5:26;
τῆς παλιγγενεσίας,
Titus 3:5.