Quick Definition
βαθμός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a step, a stage, a position
Strong's Definition
from the same as 899; a step, i.e. (figuratively) grade (of dignity)
KJV Usage: degree
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | βαίνω (go, walk) · βεβαιόω
87.3 · Status · Position, Rank
standing, rank, status a standing in society implying rank or status
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βαθμός, -od, 6, (fr. obsol. Baw i. q. Baiva, like σταθμός [fr. Gorn-pe]), threshold, step; of a grade of dignity and wholesome influence in the church, [R. V. standing], 1 Tim. iii. 13 [ef. Ellic. ad loc.]. (Used by [Sept. 1S. v. 5; 2K. xx. 9; also Sir. vi. 86]; Strabo, [Plut.], Leian., Appian, Artemid., [al.]; cf. ob. ad Phryn. p. 324.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βαθμός bathmos 1x
pr. a step, stair; met. grade of dignity, degree, rank, standing, 1 Tim. 3:13*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† βαθμός, -οῦ, ὁ, Ion. form of βασμός
(< βαίνω, to step), [in LXX I Ki 5:5 (מִפְתָּן), IV Ki 20:9, 10, 11 (מַעֲלָה), Si 6:36*;]
a step (IV Ki 20:9, 10, 11, of degrees of a dial); metaph., a degree, standing: I Ti 3:13.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βαθμός. The thought of a ‘‘ vantage ground, a ‘standing’ (RV) a little, as it were, above the common level,” which Hort (Christian Ecclesia, p. 202) suggests for this word in 1 Tim 315, may be illustrated from the Mytilene inscription /G IT. 24319 τοῖς Tas ἀξίας βασμοῖς ἀνελόγησε, ‘er wurde durch sein Verhalten dem Ehrenamte gerecht ” (Nageli, p. 26). See also R. M. Pope Zxp 7 xxi. p. 112 ff. The word is found in the mystery religions, e. g. Reitzenstein Pozmandres 13°, Pp. 343, ὃ βαθμὸς οὗτος, ὦ τέκνον. δικαιοσύνης ἐστὶν ἕδρασμα. Immisch in 2 ζλοίοσιις xvii. (N.F.) p. 33 η.} cites βαθμός as a technical expression in philosophy, denoting a step towards the goal, and compares Olympiodorus /’roleg. (Comm. in Aristotelem Graeca X11. 1), ed. Busse, p. 951, and 74. Scholia in Platonis Phaedonem, ed Finckh, p. 31°. The rule which the grammarians lay down that βαθμός is the Ionic form of the Attic Baopés:(so Lob. PAryi. p. 324) Parr II. is not borne out by the evidence of the inscriptions: see Thumb Hellen. p. 73.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βαθμός (bathmos) — standing. βαθμ-ός or βασμός, ὁ, (βαίνω) step, threshold, [LXX+5th c.BC+]; degree on the dial, [LXX]; fifteen degrees of the zodiac, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; interval in a musical scale, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
2. rung of a ladder, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
3. base or plinth of a tower, [Refs]
II. metaphorically, step, degree in rank (οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι [NT+2nd c.AD+]; simply, degree, τολμημάτων βαθμοί [Refs 1st c.AD+]; step in an argument, [Refs 6th c.AD+]; of a genealogy, ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν β. two steps farther back, i.e. farther back than one's grandfather, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
III. tax paid on stairs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]