UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to swallow

Semantic entry: 23.45

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Processes Involving the Mouth, Other Than Eating and Drinking

Definition: to cause something to pass through the mouth and into the stomach

Notes: The saying about ‘straining out a fly and swallowing a camel’ refers to gross unawareness of inconsistencies in one’s behavior, but in translating it is far better to preserve the intentional hyperbole, since it is one which can be readily grasped. As an aid to the reader, one can refer to the fact that in the list of unclean animals in RV LEV 11:1–47 · LV LEV 11:1–47 · Read together LEV 11:1–47, the fly or gnat is the smallest and the camel is the largest.

Sense 2: to destroy, to ruin completely

Semantic entry: 20.52

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Destroy

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of καταπίνω[a] ‘to swallow,’ 23.45: καταπίνω) to cause the complete and sudden destruction of someone or something

Sense 3: to cause the end of, to swallow up

Semantic entry: 13.43

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of καταπίνω[a] ‘to swallow,’ 23.45: καταπίνω) to cause the complete cessation of a state

Sense 4: to grieve to the point of giving up, to grieve and despair

Semantic entry: 25.285

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Sorrow, Regret

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to be swallowed up by grief) to be so overcome with grief as to despair{N:001}

Forms: καταπίνομαι

Collocations: καταπίνομαι λύπῃ