Basic HTML Version
BANK, BANKERS
1.
(
$1
, 5132), primarily “a table,” denotes (a) an eating-table, e.g., Matt.
15:27; (b) food, etc. placed on “a table,” Acts 6:2; 16:34; (c) “a feast, a banquet,” 1 Cor.
10:21; (d) “the table or stand” of a moneychanger, where he exchanged money for a fee,
or dealt with loans and deposits, Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; Luke 19:23; John 2:15. See
MEAT
,
TABLE
.
2.
(
$ &
, 5133), a “moneychanger, broker, banker”; translated
“bankers” in Matt. 25:27,
RV
(
KJV
, “exchangers”).¶
Note:
For
@
, Luke 19:43, see
TRENCH
.
For
BANQUETING
see
CAROUSINGS
BAPTISM, BAPTIST, BAPTIZE
A. Nouns.
1.
(
1
, 908), “baptism,” consisting of the processes of immersion,
submersion and emergence (from
, “to dip”), is used (a) of John’s “baptism,” (b) of
Christian “baptism,” see B. below; (c) of the overwhelming afflictions and judgments to
which the Lord voluntarily submitted on the cross, e.g., Luke 12:50; (d) of the sufferings
His followers would experience, not of a vicarious character, but in fellowship with the
sufferings of their Master. Some mss. have the word in Matt. 20:22-23; it is used in Mark
10:38-39, with this meaning.
2.
(
, 909), as distinct from
(the ordinance), is used of
the “ceremonial washing of articles,” Mark 7:4, 8, in some texts; Heb. 9:10; once in a
general sense, Heb. 6:2.¶ See
WASHING
.
3.
(
C )
, 910), “a baptist,” is used only of John the Baptist, and only in
the Synoptists, 14 times.
B. Verb.
(
&
, 907), “to baptize,” primarily a frequentative form of
, “to
dip,” was used among the Greeks to signify the dyeing of a garment, or the drawing of
water by dipping a vessel into another, etc. Plutarchus uses it of the drawing of wine by
dipping the cup into the bowl (
* @
, 67) and Plato, metaphorically, of being
overwhelmed with questions (
,$
$
, 277 D).
It is used in the NT in Luke 11:38 of washing oneself (as in 2 Kings 5:14, “dipped
himself,” Sept.); see also Isa. 21:4, lit., “lawlessness overwhelms me.” In the early
chapters of the four Gospels and in Acts 1:5; 11:16; 19:4, it is used of the rite performed
by John the Baptist who called upon the people to repent that they might receive
remission of sins. Those who obeyed came “confessing their sins,” thus acknowledging
their unfitness to be in the Messiah’s coming kingdom. Distinct from this is the
“baptism” enjoined by Christ, Matt. 28:19, a “baptism” to be undergone by believers,
thus witnessing to their identification with Him in death, burial and resurrection, e.g.,
Acts 19:5; Rom. 6:3-4; 1 Cor. 1:13-17; 12:13; Gal. 3:27; Col. 2:12. The phrase in Matt.
28:19, “baptizing them into the Name” (
RV
; cf. Acts 8:16,
RV
), would indicate that the
“baptized” person was closely bound to, or became the property of, the one into whose
name he was “baptized.”