ΒΥΘΙΣΑΙ, βυθισαι
BYTHISAI, bythisai
Sounds Like: boo-THEE-sai
Translations: to sink, to drown, to plunge, to submerge
From the root: ΒΥΘΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to sink', 'to drown', or 'to plunge'. It describes the action of causing something to go down into water or another liquid, or to be overwhelmed by something. It can be used literally, such as sinking a ship, or metaphorically, such as being overwhelmed by troubles.
Inflection: Aorist Active Infinitive or Aorist Active Imperative (2nd person singular)
Strong’s number: G0901 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 34:306
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΥΘΙΖΩ.
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.
- ΒΥΘΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ — to be sunk, to be submerged, to be overwhelmed, to be drowned
- ΒΥΘΙΖΟΥΣΙ — they sink, they drown, they plunge, they overwhelm
- ΒΥΘΙΖΟΥΣΙΝ — they sink, they drown, they plunge, they overwhelm
- ΒΥΘΙΖΩ — to sink, to drown, to plunge, to overwhelm
- ΒΥΘΙΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of having sunk, of having plunged, of having overwhelmed
- ΒΥΘΙΣΘΕΝΤΩΝ — (of) having been sunk, (of) having been submerged, (of) having been drowned
- ἘΒΥΘΗΙΣΘΗΣΑΝ — they were submerged, they were sunk, they were plunged, they were overwhelmed
- ἘΒΥΘΙΣΑΝ — they sank, they drowned, they submerged
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