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"aa'mid" "to erect, set up, establish, confirm" and so on,
but it has no signification of "to immerse, dip, wash,
sprinkle, bathe, as the ecclesiastical baptism is supposed
to mean. The original Hebrew verbs "rahas" "to bathe",
"tabhal' (read "taval") "to dip, to immerse," might give the
sense conveyed by the Greek word "baptizo" - "I baptize."
The Arabic versions of the New Testament have adopted
the Aramaic form, and call the Baptist "al-Ma'midan," and
"ma'mudiyeh" for "baptism." In all the Semitic languages,
including the Arabic, the verb "a'mad" signifies in its simple
or qal form "to stand erect like a pillar," and does not
contain the meaning of washing or immersion; and there-
fore it could not be the original word from which the Greek
"baptismos" is the translation. There is no necessary to
argue that both John and Jesus never heard of the word
"baptismos" in its Greek form, but that there was evidently
but it has no signification of "to immerse, dip, wash,
sprinkle, bathe, as the ecclesiastical baptism is supposed
to mean. The original Hebrew verbs "rahas" "to bathe",
"tabhal' (read "taval") "to dip, to immerse," might give the
sense conveyed by the Greek word "baptizo" - "I baptize."
The Arabic versions of the New Testament have adopted
the Aramaic form, and call the Baptist "al-Ma'midan," and
"ma'mudiyeh" for "baptism." In all the Semitic languages,
including the Arabic, the verb "a'mad" signifies in its simple
or qal form "to stand erect like a pillar," and does not
contain the meaning of washing or immersion; and there-
fore it could not be the original word from which the Greek
"baptismos" is the translation. There is no necessary to
argue that both John and Jesus never heard of the word
"baptismos" in its Greek form, but that there was evidently