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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.

Etymologies

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From baptize + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.

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Examples

  • {h} "descending and remaining" Joh 3: 34 {i} "baptizeth" Ac 1: 5; 2: 4

    Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

  • 'But behold, while here you would have this to be baptism with water, how you contradict and condemn your own notion: you say water baptism is not the entering ordinance; yet the baptism here is such as baptizeth us into a body: wherefore before you say next time that this in 1 Corinthians 12: 16 is meant of water baptism; affirm that water baptism is the initiating or entering ordinance, that your opinion and doctrine may hang better together.'

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

    John 1. 1999

  • And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

    John 3. 1999

  • But baptism was sufficient for women so far forth as this held good, "One baptizeth a heathen woman in the name of a woman, we can assert that for a deed rightly done."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "If an Israelite take a Gentile child, or find a Gentile infant, and baptizeth him in the name of a proselyte, -- behold, he is a proselyte."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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