ΚΑΤΕΠΟΝΤΙΣΕ, κατεποντισε
KATEPONTISE, katepontise
Sounds Like: kah-teh-PON-tee-seh
Translations: sank, drowned, submerged
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb meaning 'to sink' or 'to drown' someone or something. It describes the action of causing something to go down into water, often to the point of being completely covered or destroyed by it. The prefix 'κατα-' (kata-) intensifies the action, implying a complete or downward motion, and 'ποντίζω' (pontizo) means 'to put into the sea' or 'to sink'. It is used to describe events where individuals or objects are overwhelmed by water.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G2626 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 9:170
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
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΤΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ — to be drowned, to sink, to be submerged
- 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
- ΚΑΤΕΠΟΝΤΙΣΕΝ — sank, drowned, submerged
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