βαθμός
ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον → though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal
English (LSJ)
or βασμός, ὁ, (βαίνω)
A step, threshold, LXX IKi.5.5, [S.]Fr.1127; degree on the dial, LXX 4 Ki.20.9 sq.; fifteen degrees of the zodiac, Vett.Val.31.2; interval in a musical scale, Iamb.VP26.120. 2 rung of a ladder, Luc.Trag.221. 3 base or plinth of a tower, GDI5524.10 (Cyzicus). II metaph., step, degree in rank (οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι Artem.2.42), 1 Ep.Ti.3.13, Procop.Arc.24, Lyd.Mag.2.8, al.; οἱ τᾶς ἀξίας βάσμοι IG12(2).243.16 (Mytil.); simply, degree, τολμημάτων βαθμοί J.BJ4.3.10; ὥσπερ ἡδονῆς κλίμακα συμπηξάμενος ἔρως πρῶτον ἔχει β. ὄψεως Luc.Am.53; step in an argument, Simp.in Cael.718.35; of a genealogy, ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν β. two steps farther back, i.e. farther back than one's grandfather, D.Chr.41.6. III tax paid on stairs, POxy.574 (ii A. D.): acc. to Phryn.296, Moer.97, βαθμός is Ion., βασμός Att., but βασμός occurs GDI5524.10 (Cyzic.), Jahresh.3.55 (Scepsis).
