Lexical 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. |
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