BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2883
ta.va — to sink
1) to sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted 1a) (Qal) to sink, sink down 1b)(Pual) to be sunk 1c) (Hophal) to cause to sink
10 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4155
pnigō — to choke
πνίγω [in LXX: 1Ki.16:14-15 (בָּעַת pi.) * ;] to choke: with accusative, Mat.13:7 (WH, mg.); imperfect (coniative), Mat.18:28; of drowning, pass., Mrk.5:13 (cf. ἀπο-, ἐπι-, συν-πνίγω).† (AS)
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2670
katapontizō — to sink
κατα-πονίζω [in LXX for טָבַע pu., Exo.15:4 A, בָּלַע pi., שָׁטַף, Psa.55:9 69:2, al. ;] to throw into the sea, sink or drown therein: Mat.14:30; pass., Mat.18:6.† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G638
apopnigō — to choke
ἀπο-πνίγω [in LXX: Nam.2:13 (חָנַק pi.), Tob.3:8 * ;] to choke: Mat.13:7, Luk.8:7; pass., of drowning (= καταποντίζομαι), Luk.8:33.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20933
periantleō — be completely drowned
to be completely drowned
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20991
pontobrochos — drowned in the sea
drowned in the sea
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7901
katapontismos — drowning
drowning
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
