Lexicon loutron: a washing, a bath Original Word: λουτρόν, οῦ, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: loutron Phonetic Spelling: (loo-tron') Short Definition: a bath, washing, baptism Definition: a bath (of water, not the vessel), water for washing, washing. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3067 loutrón – properly, a bath, public or private (both were very common in NT times). See 3068 (louō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom louóDefinitiona washing, a bath NASB Translationwashing (2).
Thayer's 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.
Strong's washing. From louo; a bath, i.e. (figuratively), baptism -- washing. see GREEK louo |
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