STRONGS G3067:
λουτρόν,
λουτροῦ,
τό (
λούω), from
Homer down (who uses
λοετρόν, from the uncontracted form
λοέω),
a bathing, bath, i. e. as well the act of bathing (a sense disputed by some (cf. Ellicott on
Ephesians 5:26)), as the place; used in the N. T. and in ecclesiastical writings of
baptism (for examples see
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word): with
τοῦ ὕδατος added,
Ephesians 5:26;
τῆς παλιγγενεσίας,
Titus 3:5.
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