Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βυσσός ‎(bussós)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βyθós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vyθós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viθós/

Noun

βυθός • ‎(buthós) m ‎(genitive βυθοῦ); second declension

1. depth
2. depth of the sea, deep water

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἄβυσσος ‎(ábussos)

Related terms

• βαθύς ‎(bathús)
• βένθος ‎(bénthos)

References

• βυθός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βυθός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βυθός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «βυθός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βυθός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1037”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abyss idem, page 5.
  • gulf idem, page 379.
  • yawning idem, page 995.

Greek

Noun

βυθός • ‎(vythós) m ‎(plural βυθοί)

1. seabed, riverbed, bottom, ground

Declension