{"def":{"short":"baptism (technically or figuratively)","long":["immersion, submersion",["of calamities and afflictions with which one is quite overwhelmed","of John's baptism, that purification rite by which men on confessing their sins were bound to spiritual reformation","of Christian baptism (a rite of immersion in water as commanded by Christ, by which one after confessing his sins and professing his faith in Christ, having been born again by the Holy Spirit unto a new life, identifies publicly with the fellowship of Christ and the church)"]]},"deriv":"from G0907","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈβɑ.pti.smɑ","ipa_mod":"ˈvɑ.pti.smɑ","sbl":"baptisma","dic":"VA-ptee-sma","dic_mod":"VA-ptee-sma"},"see":["G0907"]}