βάθος [ᾰ], εος, τό,
(βαθύς) depth or height, accusative as measured up or down, Ταρτάρου βάθη [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1029; αἰθέρος βάθος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1297, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1715 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βάθους μετέχειν to be a solid, possessing depth as well as length and breadth, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 528b; εἴτ᾽ ἐν βάθεσιν εἴτ᾽ ἐν τάχεσιν [prev. author] “Plt.” 299e; βάθους αὔξη [prev. author] “R.” 528d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to μῆκος, πλάτος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 209a5; μεγέθους τὸ ἐπὶ τρία [συνεχὲς] β. [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1020a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with Preps., ἐκ βάθεος in depth, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ βάθους through and through, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.8.10; εἰς βάθος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 386a23, +others; ἐν βάθει [prev. author] “Sens.” 440a14, etc.; κατὰ βάθους [prev. author] “Mete.” 339b12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατὰ βάθος in a descending scale, metaphorically of causation, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 95 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]: frequently in military sense, depth of a line of battle, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.13, etc.; ἐπὶ βάθος τάσσεσθαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]in depth of line, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.68; ἐς β. ἐκτάξαι 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. τριχῶν, of long thick hair, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.9; ἄτομα πώγωνος βάθη 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 14.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; interior of a country, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.3.7, +others] Refs 1st c.BC+]; depth, of perspective in a picture, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “ἔκφρασις ὡρολογίου” p.157 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus: _plural_, βάθη ] Refs 5th c.BC+]depths, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 44d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; deep water, opposed to shallows near shore, [[ LXX.Psa.68(69).2, +others, NT.Luke.5.4; ἐν τοῖς βάθεσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 599b9. ] LXX+NT+4th c.BC+]