Words the Bible translates as dip
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- baptizōβαπτίζωto plunge something fully into water, and from that picture, to wash in water as a religious act or to be wholly engulfed by something
- baptōβάπτωto dipnot studied yet
- tavalטָבַלto dip: to put something into a liquid, whether to wet just its surface or to plunge it fully under
- embaptōἐμβάπτωto dip something into a bowl or liquid: a brief, partial dipping, not a plunging under
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