Word Summary
baptistēs: a baptizer
Original Word: βαπτιστήςTransliteration: baptistēs
Phonetic Spelling: (bap-tis-tace')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a baptizer
Meaning: Baptist -- a baptizer
Strong's Concordance
Baptist.
From baptizo; a baptizer, as an epithet of Christ's forerunner -- Baptist.
see GREEK baptizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 910: βαπτιστήςβαπτιστής,
βαπτιστοῦ,
ὁ (
βαπτίζω),
a baptizer; one who administers the rite of baptism; the surname of John, the forerunner of Christ:
Matthew 3:1;
Matthew 11:11f; (
Matthew 14:2, 8;
Matthew 16:14;
Matthew 17:13);
Mark 6:24 (
T Tr WH τοῦ βαπτίζοντος),
Mark 6:25;
Mark 8:28;
Luke 7:20, 28 (
T Tr WH omit),
Luke 7:38;
Luke 9:19; also given him by
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 2, and found in no other secular writings (Joh. d. Täufer by Breest (1881), Köhler (1884).)