Original Word: πνίγω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pnigó
Phonetic Spelling: (pnee'-go)
Definition: to choke
Usage: I choke, throttle, strangle; hence: I drown.Word Origin
a prim. verb
Definition
to choke
NASB Translation
choke (1), drowned (1).

STRONGS NT 4155: πνίγω

πνίγω: 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.)

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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