Lexicon apagchó: To hang oneself, to strangle Original Word: ἀπάγχω Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 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 NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and agchó (to press, strangle) Definition to strangle, hang oneself NASB Translation hanged (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 519: ἀπάγχωἀπάγχω (cf. Latinangustus,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.) Forms and Transliterations απηγξατο απήγξατο ἀπήγξατο apenxato apēnxato apḗnxatoLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |