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Drown
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to plunge into the deep, to sink" (buthos, "bottom, the deep, the sea"), akin to bathos, "depth," and abussos, "bottomless," and Eng., "bath," is used in Luke 5:7 of the "sinking" of a boat; metaphorically in 1 Timothy 6:9 , of the effect of foolish and hurtful lusts, which "drown men in destruction and perdition." See SINK.
lit., "to drink down" (pino, "to drink," prefixed by kata, "down"), signifies "to swallow up" (RV, in Hebrews 11:29 , for AV, "were drowned"). It is elsewhere translated by the verb "to swallow, or swallow up," except in 1 Peter 5:8 , "devour." See DEVOUR , No. 3, SWALLOW.
"to throw into the sea" (kata, "down," pontos, "the open sea"), in the Passive Voice, "to be sunk in, to be drowned," is translated "were drowned," in Matthew 18:6 , AV (RV, "should be sunk"); elsewhere in Matthew 14:30 , "(beginning) to sink." See SINK.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Drown'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/d/drown.html. 1940.
