Lexicon apagchó: to strangle, hang oneself Original Word: ἀπάγχωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apagchó Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ang'-khom-ahee) Short Definition: I choke, strangle Definition: I choke, strangle; mid: I strangle or hang myself. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and agchó (to press, strangle) Definitionto strangle, hang oneself NASB Translationhanged (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 519: ἀπάγχωἀπάγχω (cf. Latin angustus, anxius, English anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166): 1 aorist middle ἀπηγξαμην; to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way ( ἀπό away, cf. ἀποκτείνω to kill off), Homer, Odyssey 19, 230; middle to hang oneself, to end one's life by hanging: Matthew 27:5. ( 2 Samuel 17:23; Tobit 3:10; in Attic from Aeschylus down.)
Strong's hang himself. From apo and agcho (to choke; akin to the base of agkale); to strangle oneself off (i.e. To death) -- hang himself. see GREEK apo see GREEK agkale |
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