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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - συμπνίγω

συμπνίγω

G4846

Transliteration: sympnígō

Pronunciation: soom-pnee'-go

Definition: choke


- Original: συμπνίγω

- Transliteration: Sumpnigo

- Phonetic: soom-pnee'-go

- Definition:

1. to choke utterly

a. metaph. the seed of the divine word sown in the mind

b. to press round or throng one so as almost to suffocate him

- Origin: from G4862" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4862 and G4155" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4155

- TDNT entry: 13:35,9

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G4862" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4862 and G4155" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4155; to strangle completely that is (literally) to drown or (figuratively) to crowd: - choke throng.


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