Drown
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Song of Solomon 8:7
- Last Reference: 1 Timothy 6:9
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
(Exodus 15:4; Amos 8:8; Hebrews 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 Matthew 18:6.
DROWN, verb transitive
1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion.
2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.
3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land.
4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.
5. To overwhelm; to overpower.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
DROWN, verb intransitive To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought what pain it was to drown
DROWNED, participle passive Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.
DROWNER, noun He or that which drowns.
DROWNING, participle present tense Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Song of Solomon 8:7
- Last Reference: 1 Timothy 6:9
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: