βαθμός, βαθμου, ὁ (from the obsolete βάω equivalent to βαίνω, like σταθμός (from ἵστημι), threshold, step; of a grade of dignity and wholesome influence in the church (R. V. standing), 1Ti_3:13 (cf. Ellicott at the passage). (Used by (the Sept. 1Sa_5:5; 2Ki_20:9; also Sir_6:36); Strabo (Plutarch), Lucian, Appian, Artemidorus Daldianus (others); cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 324.)

βαθμός bathmos 1x pr. a step, stair; met. grade of dignity, degree, rank, standing, 1Ti_3:13

† βαθμός , -οῦ , ὁ , Ion . form of βασμός ( < βαίνω , to step ), [in LXX 1Sa_5:5 ( H4670 ), 2Ki_20:9-11 Sir_6:36 * ;] a step ( 2Ki_20:9-11 of degrees of a dial); metaph ., a degree, standing: 1Ti_3:13 .†

βαθμός [page 101] 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 1Ti_3:13 , may be illustrated from the Mytilene inscription IG II. 243 .16 τοῖς τὰς ἀξίας βασμοῖς ἀνελόγησε , er wurde durch sein Verhalten dem Ehrenamte gerecht (Nδgeli, p. 26). See also R. M. Pope Exp T xxi. p. 112 ff. The word is found in the mystery religions, e.g. Reitzenstein Poimandres 13 .9 , p. 343, ὁ βαθμὸς οὗτος , ὦ τέκνον , δικαιοσύνης ἐστὶν ἕδρασμα . Immisch in Philologus xvii. (N.F.) p. 33 n. .1 cites βαθμός as a technical expression in philosophy, denoting a step towards the goal, and compares Olympiodorus Proleg. ( Comm. in Aristotelem Graeca XII. 1), ed. Busse, p. 9 .31 , and ib. Scholia in Platonis Phaedonem , ed Finckh, p. 3 .16 . The rule which the grammarians lay down that βαθμός is the Ionic form of the Attic βασμός (so Lob. Phryn. p. 324) is not borne out by the evidence of the inscriptions : see Thumb Hellen. p. 73.

βαθμός [Etym: βαίνω] "a step": metaph. "a step, degree", NTest.

βαθμός, -οῦ, ὁ, Ion. form of βασμός (βαίνω, to step), [in LXX 1Ki.5:5 (מִפְתָּן), 4Ki.20:9, 10 11 (מַעֲלָה), Sir.6:36 * ;] a step (4Ki, l.with, of degrees of a dial); metaphorically, a degree, standing: 1Ti.3:13.† (AS)