STRONGS G519:
ἀπάγχω [cf. Latin
angustus,
anxius, English
anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166]: 1 aorist middle
ἀπηγξάμην;
to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way (
ἀπό away, cf.
ἀποκτείνω to kill off), Homer, Odyssey 19, 230; middle
to hang oneself, to end one's life by hanging:
Matthew 27:5. (
2 Samuel 17:23; Tobit 3:10; in Attic from Aeschylus down.)
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2 Samuel
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17:23
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Matthew
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27:5