King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4916
Transliteration: synthaptō
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-thap'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bury with
Meaning: to bury with
συνθάπτω: 2 aorist passive συνετάφην; from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; to bury together with: τῷ Χριστῷ, together with Christ, passive, διά τοῦ βαπτίσματος εἰς τόν θάνατον namely, αὐτοῦ, Romans 6:4; ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, Colossians 2:12. For all who in the rite of baptism are plunged under the water thereby declare that they put faith in the expiatory death of Christ for the pardon of their past sins; therefore Paul likens baptism to a burial by which the former sinfulness is buried, i. e. utterly taken away.
Word Summary
synthaptō: to bury with
Original Word: συνθάπτωTransliteration: synthaptō
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-thap'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bury with
Meaning: to bury with
Strong's Concordance
bury with. From sun and thapto; to inter in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulture as to sin) -- bury with.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK thapto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4916: συνθάπτωσυνθάπτω: 2 aorist passive συνετάφην; from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; to bury together with: τῷ Χριστῷ, together with Christ, passive, διά τοῦ βαπτίσματος εἰς τόν θάνατον namely, αὐτοῦ, Romans 6:4; ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, Colossians 2:12. For all who in the rite of baptism are plunged under the water thereby declare that they put faith in the expiatory death of Christ for the pardon of their past sins; therefore Paul likens baptism to a burial by which the former sinfulness is buried, i. e. utterly taken away.