Quick Definition
strangled
Strong's Definition
throttled, i.e. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled)
Derivation: from G4155 (πνίγω);
KJV Usage: strangled
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πνικτός, πνικτη, πνικτόν (πνίγω), suffocated, strangled: τό πνικτόν (what is strangled, i. e.) an animal deprived of life without shedding its blood, Act_15:20; Act_15:29; Act_21:25. ((Several times in Athen. and other later writ, chiefly of cookery; cf. our smothered as a culinary term.))
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πνικτός pniktos 3x
stra ngled, suffocated; in NT τὸ πνικτόν , the flesh of animals killed by strangulation or suffocation, Act_15:20 ; Act_15:29 ; Act_21:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* πνικτός , -ή , -όν
( < πνίγω ),
strangled : Act_15:20 ; Act_15:29 ; Act_21:25 ( cf. Lev_17:13-14 ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πνικτός [page 522]
On πνικτός in the Apostolic Decree, Act_15:20 ; Act_15:29 , see a note by Nestle in ZNTW vii. (1906), p. 254 ff., and more recently the elaborate discussion by Ropes in Beginnings of Christianity Part I. Vol. iii. p. 265 ff.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πνικτός πνικτός, ή, όν [Etym: verb. adj.] "strangled", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πνικτός, -ή, -όν
(πνίγω),
strangled : Act.15:20, 29 21:25 (cf. Lev.17:13-14).†
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