Strong's Number G4916

συνθάπτω

sunthapto · soon-thap'-to

Transliteration:

sunthapto{soon-thap'-to}

Word Origin:

from 4862 and 2290

TDNT:

7:786,1102

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's Definition:

to inter in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulture as to sin)

Usage in the KJV:

bury with 2

Total: 2
Occurs 2 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

to bury together with For all who in the rite of believer's baptism are plunged into 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.