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Strong's #2670 - καταποντίζω
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- to plunge or sink into the sea
- to sink, to go down
- a grievous offender for the purpose of killing him, to drown
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καταποντ-ίζω, throw into the sea, plunge or drown therein, τινα Lys. 14.27, D. 23.169, Plu. 2.403c, etc.: metaph., Axiop. 6 (Pass.); κ. τὰς βουλάς Lib. Or. 49.10: — Pass., v.l. in Plb. 2.60.8; καταποντισθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης D.S. 18.20; ἐν τῷ πελάγει Matthew 18:6; εἰς τὸ πέλαγος Plu. Tim. 13; sink, Matthew 14:30; of a ship, PPetr. 2p.135 (iii B. C.).
καταποντίζω: passive, present καταποντίζομαι; 1 aorist κατεποντίσθην; to plunge or sink in the sea; passive in the intransitive sense, to sink, to go down: Matthew 14:30; a grievous offender for the purpose of killing him, to drown: passive Matthew 18:6. (Lysias, Demosthenes, Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch (Josephus, Antiquities 10, 7, 5; 14, 15, 10;
c. Apion. 2, 34, 3), others; the Sept.; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 24; Lob. Phryn., p. 361 note).)
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κατα -πονίζω ,
[in LXX for H2883 pu., Exodus 15:4 A, H1104 pi., H7857, Psalms 55:9; Psalms 69:2, al.;]
to throw into the sea, sink or drown therein: Matthew 14:30; pass., Matthew 18:6.†
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For the literal use of this verb, as in Matthew 14:30; Matthew 18:6, cf. P Petr II. 40(a).27 (iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski.8, p. 42) with reference to the sinking of an elephant–transport ship—ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἡ ἐλεφαντηγὸς κατεποντίσθη.
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