To strangle
חָנַקStrong’s H2614chanaq (cha-naq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chanaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “hanged himself” and “strangling”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.”
Meaning
- To strangle, strangle oneself(Niphal) to strangle oneself · (Piel) to strangle
How it's translated
- and he hanged himself 1
- and strangling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Nahum 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חָנַק chanaq · to strangle
1) to strangle, strangle oneself 1a) (Niphal) to strangle oneself 1b) (Piel) to strangle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strangle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRANGLE, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration.
- To suppress; to hinder from birth or appearance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.