Word: sunqaptw

Pronounce: soon-thap'-to

Strongs Number: G4916

Orig: from 4862 and 2290; to inter in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulture as to sin):--bury with. G4862

Use: TDNT-7:786,1102 Verb

Heb Strong:

1) to bury together with

For all who in the rite of believer's baptism are plunged into the water, thereby declare that they put faith in the expiatory death of Christ for the pardon of their past sins; therefore Paul likens baptism to a burial by which the former sinfulness is buried, i.e. utterly taken away.