ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ, καταποντιζεσθαι
KATAPONTIZESTHAI, katapontizesthai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-pon-TID-zes-thai
Translations: to be drowned, to sink, to be submerged
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Infinitive Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb, formed from the preposition ΚΑΤΑ (KATA), meaning 'down' or 'against', and the verb ΠΟΝΤΙΖΩ (PONTIZO), meaning 'to plunge' or 'to sink'. Therefore, it literally means 'to plunge down' or 'to sink down'. It is used to describe the action of being overwhelmed by water, leading to sinking or drowning. It can refer to a person or an object being submerged.
Inflection: Present, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2626 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 14:30
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΕΙΣ — you sink, you drown, you submerge
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΕΣΘΕ — you are being drowned, you are being submerged, you are sinking
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΟΜΕΝΑΣ — being drowned, being submerged, being sunk
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΩ — to sink, to drown, to be drowned
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they drown, they sink, they submerge
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΑΝΤΑΣ — having drowned, having sunk, having submerged, having cast into the sea
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΑΤΩ — let him drown, let him sink, let it drown, let it sink
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΘΗ — to be drowned, to be submerged, to be cast into the sea
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to be drowned, to be sunk, to be submerged
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΟΝ — sink, drown, submerge, be drowned
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΣΟΥΣΙ — they will drown, they will sink, they will be drowned, they will be submerged
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΩ — I sink, I drown, I am drowned, I am submerged
- ΚΑΤΕΠΟΝΤΙΣΕ — sank, drowned, submerged
- ΚΑΤΕΠΟΝΤΙΣΕΝ — sank, drowned, submerged
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