Strangling
מַחֲנָקStrong’s H4267machanaq (ma-cha-naq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machanaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “strangling”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.”
Meaning
- Strangling, suffocationas a mode of death
How it's translated
- strangling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲנָק machanaq · strangling
1) strangling, suffocation 1a) as a mode of death
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strangling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRANGLING, participle present
tense Choking; suffocating; suppressing.
All definitions and other forms of “strangling”
STRANGLING, noun
The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.
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.