Drown

"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 Luk 5:7 of the "sinking" of a boat; metaphorically in 1Ti 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 Heb 11:29, for AV, "were drowned"). It is elsewhere translated by the verb "to swallow, or swallow up," except in 1Pe 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 Mat 18:6, AV (RV, "should be sunk"); elsewhere in Mat 14:30, "(beginning) to sink." See SINK.