βαθμ-ός
or βασμός, ὁ, (βαίνω)
I
1. step, threshold, LXX [1Sa 5:5], [ S. ] Fr. 1127; degree on the dial, LXX 4 Ki. 20.9 sq.; fifteen degrees of the zodiac, Vett.Val. 31.2; interval in a musical scale, Iamb. VP 26.120.
2. rung of a ladder, Luc. Trag. 221.
3. base or plinth of a tower, GDI 5524.10 (Cyzicus).
II metaph., step, degree in rank (οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι Artem. 2.42), [1Ti 3:13], Procop. Arc. 24, Lyd. Mag. 2.8, al.; οἱ τᾶς ἀξίας βάσμοι IG 12(2).243.16 (Mytil.); simply, degree, τολμημάτων βαθμοί J. BJ 4.3.10; ὥσπερ ἡδονῆς κλίμακα συμπηξάμενος ἔρως πρῶτον ἔχει β. ὄψεως Luc. Am. 53; step in an argument, Simp. in Cael. 718.35; of a genealogy, ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν β. two steps farther back, i.e. farther back than one’s grandfather, D.Chr. 41.6.
III tax paid on stairs, POxy. 574 (ii A. D.): acc. to Phryn. 296, Moer. 97, βαθμός is Ion., βασμός Att., but βασμός occurs GDI 5524.10 (Cyzic.), Jahresh. 3.55 (Scepsis).
βαθμός bathmos 1x
pr. a step, stair;
met. grade of dignity, degree, rank, standing, [1Ti 3:13]
G898 — βαθμός
βαθμου, ὁ (from the obsolete βάω equivalent to βαίνω, like σταθμός (from ἵστημι), threshold, step; of a grade of dignity and wholesome influence in the church (R. V. standing), [1Ti 3:13] (cf. Ellicott at the passage). (Used by (the Sept. [1Sa 5:5]; [2Ki 20:9]; also Sir. 6:36); Strabo (Plutarch), Lucian, Appian, Artemidorus Daldianus (others); cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 324.)
† βαθμός , - οῦ , ὁ ,
Ion . form of βασμός
( < βαίνω , to step),
[in LXX [1Sa 5:5] (H4670), [2Ki 20:9-11] Sir 6:36 * ;]
a step ([2Ki 20:9-11] of degrees of a dial); metaph ., a degree, standing: [1Ti 3:13]. †