{"def":{"short":"to inter in company with, i.e., (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulcher as to sin)","long":["to bury together with"]},"deriv":"from G4862 and G2290","pronun":{"ipa":"synˈθɑ.pto","ipa_mod":"sjun̪ˈθɑ.ptow","sbl":"synthaptō","dic":"soon-THA-ptoh","dic_mod":"syoon-THA-ptoh"},"see":["G2290","G4862"],"comment":"Paul likens baptism to a burial by which the former sinfulness is buried, i.e., utterly taken away, which is aptly pictured by the immersion of a believer in the waters of baptism."}