- βάπτω
- βάπτω fut. βάψω; 1 aor. ἔβαψα; pf. pass. ptc. βεβαμμένος (this form Epict. 2, 9, 20 of the experience [τὸ πάθος] that causes a Ἕλλην to become a Ἰουδαῖος); aor. ἐβάφην (Hom.+, pap, LXX) to dip someth. in a liquid, dip, dip in J 13:26, ἐμβάπτω P66 et al. (cp. Ruth 2:14); ἄκρον τοῦ δακτύλου ὕδατος the tip of the finger in water (on the gen. ὕδατος cp. B-D-F §172; Arat., Phaenomena 651 βάπτων ὠκεανοῖο; 858 Maass) Lk 16:24. The dat. also occurs (ἔβαψεν τῷ ὕδατι 4 Km 8:15 v.l.) ibid. v.l.; ἱμάτιον βεβαμμένον αἵματι Rv 19:13 (the text is uncertain; v.l. ῥεραντισμένον, περιρεραμμένον, ἐρραμμένον s. ῥαντίζω, περιρραίνω, ῥαίνω) a garment dipped in blood = dyed in blood (s. JScott, ClJ 16, 1920, 53f for exx. of β.=‘stain’ w. blood fr. Batrachom. 220 and Lucian, Ver. Hist. 1, 17. For the act of dipping into dye s. GThGk A 8 [Ea p. 148 note, a portion of text from the fragmentary ms.Paris Bibl. nat. gr. 239]; s. also Hdt. 7, 67 εἵματα βεβαμμένα; PCairZen 630, 1 [III B.C.]; POxy 736, 6 [I A.D.]; Jos., Bell. 4, 563, Ant. 3, 102); the imagery vss. 11–13 is that of a regal figure, who would be caparisoned in a garment with hue of indigo, the standard color for a head of state (s. πορφύρα); the blood of Jesus suggests such royal purple dye in a climactic contrast to the woman described 17:4 and the ‘great city’ 18:16.—B. 415. DELG. M-M. TW.
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