UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: θάπτω

Sense 1: to bury together with

Semantic entry: 52.8

Semantic domains: Funerals and Burial

Definition: to bury someone along with someone else

Notes: In OET ROM 6:4 συνθάπτω is used figuratively, since it evidently had not yet acquired a conventional figurative meaning. In a number of languages it is necessary to mark this figurative usage by means of a simile, for example, ‘we were, so to speak, buried with him.’

Show passage in OET: ROM 6:4

OET-RV ROM 6:4

4 Therefore we were buried with him through the immersion into death, so that just as Messiah was brought back to life by the father’s power, so too we can live a new life.

OET-LV ROM 6:4

4 Therefore we _were _buried _with with _him through the immersion into the death, in _order _that as was _raised chosen _one /messiah from dead by the glory of _the father, thus also we in newness of _life may _walk.

Show passage in OET: COL 2:12

OET-RV COL 2:12

12 You all were buried with him when you were immersed in water, and you came back to life with him when you came up from the water, through faith in God’s working which gave him life after death.

OET-LV COL 2:12

12 having _been _buried _with with _him in the washing, in which also you _all _were _raised _up _with him, through the faith in _the working of_ the _god, which having _raised him from the_dead.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

συνθάπτω

Form 1

Sense 1: to bury together with