Quick Definition
I choke, strangle
Strong's Definition
to wheeze, i.e. (causative, by implication) to throttle or strangle (drown)
Derivation: strengthened from G4154 (πνέω);
KJV Usage: choke, take by the throat
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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, Mat_13:7 T WH marginal reading; in the passive of perishing by drowning (Xenophon, anab. 5, 7, 25; cf. Josephus, Antiquities 10, 7, 5), Mar_5:13.
b. to wring one's neck, throttle (A. V. to take one by the throat): Mat_18:28. (Compare: ἀποπνίγω, ἐπιπνίγω, συμπνίγω.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πνίγω pnigō 3x
to stifle, suffocate, choke, Mar_5:13 ; to seize by the throat.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πνίγω ,
[in LXX : 1Sa_16:14-15 ( H1204 pi .) * ;]
to choke: c . acc , Mat_13:7 ( WH , mg .); impf . (coniative), Mat_18:28 ; of drowning, pass ., Mar_5:13 ( cf. ἀπο -, ἐπι -, συν -πνίγω ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πνίγω [page 522]
The nursery acrostic P Tebt II. 278 .40 (i/A.D.) πνίξωι ἐματόν , ῥιγῶι γάρ , I will choke myself, for it is cold (Edd.), gives us the word in an elementary stage of educational achievement. Cf. Artem. p. 3 .13 ἢ ἐμεῖν ἢ πνίγεσθαι . The subst. πνιγμός occurs in a Menander fragment published in PSI II. 126 .80 f. :
τί παθών ; χολή , λύπη τις , ἔκσ̣τασι̣ς̣ φρενῶν ,
πνιγμός .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πνίγω "to choke, throttle, strangle", Plat. ; proverb., ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγηι, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνειν; if water "chokes", why should one drink more? Arist. :—Pass. "to be choked, stifled", Ar. : "to be drowned", Xen. metaph. "to vex, torment", Luc. "to cook in a close-covered vessel, to stew", Hdt. , Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πνίγω
[in LXX: 1Ki.16:14-15 (בָּעַת pi.) * ;]
to choke: with accusative, Mat.13:7 (WH, mg.); imperfect (coniative), Mat.18:28; of drowning, pass., Mrk.5:13 (cf. ἀπο-, ἐπι-, συν-πνίγω).†
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