The corpus record

βῠθ-ίζω

buthizo

sink, let down, bury, plunge

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Where it lives

1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

βῠθ-ίζω · byth-izō — LSJ

sink, let down, bury, plunge, sink, to be plunged into the sea

sink a ship, S. Fr. 552; μίαν πεντήρη ἐβύθισαν Plb. 2.10.5; let down, ἀγκύρας Them. in Ph. 133.20; bury, plunge, ἑρπετόν . . ἐν μυχῷ τοῦ πηλοῦ Luc. Alex. 13:—Pass., of a ship, etc., sink, D.S. 11.18, Babr. 117.1, Plu. Caes. 49, D.Chr. 63.3; of a person, to be plunged into the sea, Plu. Vit. aer. al. 2.831d.

II overwhelm, submerge

overwhelm, submerge, of a flood, οἰκίας Plu. Par.min. 2.306f:—Pass., Id. Daed. 7.

III to be ruined

metaph., β. ἀνθρώπους εἰς ὄλεθρον 1 Ep.Ti. 6.9:—Pass., to be ruined, τοὺς διὰ φιλοκερδίαν βυθιζομένους Phld. Mort. 33; τὸ νῆφον ὑπὸ τοῦ πάθους βυθίζεται Alciphr. 1.13; νοῦς βυθισθεὶς θυμῷ ἢ ἐπιθυμίᾳ Simp. in Ph. 273.11, cf. Hld. 7.12.

In the wild

βυθίσαντες · bythisantes Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4467)
βυθιζομένου · bythizomenou Epictetus, Discourses 3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3898)
βυθίζουσι · bythizousi New Testament, 1 Timothy 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 86)
βυθίζεσθαι · bythizesthai New Testament, Luke 5.7 (DIORISIS sentence 194)
ἐβύθισαν · ebythisan Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 12

Where it came from

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