Words the Bible translates as baptism
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- baptismaβάπτισμαbaptism: the specific water rite of initiation, whether John's baptism of repentance or the Christian baptism that joins a person to Christ
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- an overwhelming ordeal that engulfs a person: Jesus's word for the flood of suffering and death he was about to undergo
- baptismosβαπτισμόςbaptismnot studied yet
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