βάθος

βάθος — báthos

βάθος, βαθέος (βάθους), τό (connected with the obsolete verb βάζω, βάω (but cf. Curtius, § 635; Vanicek, p. 195); cf. βαθύς, βάσσων, and ὁ βυθός, ὁ βύσσος; German Boden), depth, height — (accusative, as measured down or up);

1. properly: Mat 13:5; Mar 4:5; Rom 8:39 (opposed to ὕψωμα); Eph 3:18 (opposed to ὕψος); of 'the deep' sea (the 'high seas'), Luk 5:4

2. metaphorically: ἡ κατά βάθους πτωχεία αὐτῶν, deep, extreme, poverty, 2Co 8:2; τά βάθη τοῦ Θεοῦ the deep things of God, things hidden and above man's scrutiny, especially the divine counsels, 1Co 2:10 (τοῦ Σατανᾶ, Rev 2:24 Rec.; καρδίας ἀνθρώπου, Jdt 8:14; (τά βαθα τῆς θείας γνώσεως, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 40, 1 [ET] (cf. Lightfoot at the passage))); inexhaustible abundance, immense amount, πλούτου, Rom 11:33 (so also Sophocles Aj. 130; βαθύς πλοῦτος, Aelian v. h. 3, 18; κακῶν (Aeschylus Pers. 465, 712); Euripides, Hel. 303; the Sept. Pro 18:3).