Lexical Summary pnigō: to choke Original Word: πνίγωTransliteration: pnigō Phonetic Spelling: (pnee'-go) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to choke Meaning: to choke Strong's Concordance 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
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