STRONGS G4156:
πνικτός,
πνικτη,
πνικτόν (
πνίγω),
suffocated, strangled:
τό πνικτόν (
what is strangled, i. e.) an animal deprived of life without shedding its blood,
Acts 15:20,
29;
Acts 21:25. ((Several times in
Athen. and other later writ, chiefly of cookery; cf. our
smothered as a culinary term.))
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