(Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 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 Matt. 18:6.
·vt To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. II. Drown ·vi To be suffocated in wat...
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