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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Drown:

(Exd 15:4; Amo 8:8; Hbr 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 Mat 18:6.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Drown:

"to plunge into the deep, to sink" (buthos, "bottom, the deep, the sea"), akin to bathos, "depth," and abussos, "bottomless," and Eng., "bath," is used in Luk 5:7 of the "sinking" of a boat; metaphorically in 1Ti 6:9, of the effect of foolish and hurtful lusts, which "drown men in destruction and perdition."
See SINK.

Drown:

lit., "to drink down" (pino, "to drink," prefixed by kata, "down"), signifies "to swallow up" (RV, in Hbr 11:29, for AV, "were drowned"). It is elsewhere translated by the verb "to swallow, or swallow up," except in 1Pe 5:8, "devour."
See DEVOUR, No. 3, SWALLOW.

Drown:

"to throw into the sea" (kata, "down," pontos, "the open sea"), in the Passive Voice, "to be sunk in, to be drowned," is translated "were drowned," in Mat 18:6, AV (RV, "should be sunk"); elsewhere in Mat 14:30, "(beginning) to sink."
See SINK.