KJV dictionary & concordance
To submerge or overwhelm as with water; to cause to perish or be lost under an overwhelming force.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Song of Solomon 8:7
Complete exact-word concordance
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Many waters cannot quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: if a man would giue all the substance of his house for loue, it would vtterly be contemned.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
But they that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish & hurtfull lusts, which drowne men in destruction and perdition.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To overwhelm in water; to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid. To immerse, plunge, and lose; to overwhelm or overpower.
