πνίγω
pnigō
“to choke”
Definition
to wheeze, i.e. (causative, by implication) to throttle or strangle (drown)
strengthened from G4154 (πνέω);
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
G:V
Greek Verb
Occurrences
πνίγω appears 3 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
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