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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Drown

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Drown

(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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Drown

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Drowned

DROWNED, participle passive Deprived of life by immersion in a fluid; overflowed; inundated; overwhelmed.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Drowner

DROWNER, noun He or that which drowns.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Drowning

DROWNING, participle present tense Destroying life by submersion in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming.