Lexicon pnigó: to choke Original Word: πνίγωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pnigó Phonetic Spelling: (pnee'-go) Short Definition: I choke, strangle Definition: I choke, throttle, strangle; hence: I drown. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definitionto choke NASB Translationchoke (1), drowned (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4155: πνίγωπνίγω: imperfect ἐπνιγον; 1 aorist ἐπνιξα; imperfect passive 3 person plural ἐπνίγοντο; a. to choke, strangle: used of thorns crowding down the seed sown in a field and hindering its growth, Matthew 13:7 T WH marginal reading; in the passive of perishing by drowning (Xenophon, anab. 5, 7, 25; cf. Josephus, Antiquities 10, 7, 5), Mark 5:13. b. to wring one's neck, throttle (A. V. to take one by the throat): Matthew 18:28. (Compare: ἀποπνίγω, ἐπιπνίγω, συμπνίγω.)
Strong's choke, take by the throat. Strengthened from pneo; to wheeze, i.e. (causative, by implication) to throttle or strangle (drown) -- choke, take by the throat. see GREEK pneo |
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