Lexical Summary chanaq: to strangle Original Word: חָנַקTransliteration: chanaq Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-nak') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to strangle Meaning: to be narrow, to throttle, to choke oneself to death Strong's Concordance hang self, strangle A primitive root (compare chanak); to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) To choke oneself to death (by a rope) -- hang self, strangle. see HEBREW chanak Brown-Driver-Briggs H2614. chanaq [חָנַק] verb strangle (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic חֲנַק, ; Arabic ); — Niph`al Imperfect וַיֵּחָנַ֑ק 2 Samuel 17:23 strangled himself (+וַיָּ֫מָת). Pi`el participle מְחַנֵּק Nahum 2:13 strangle, of lion strangling prey, figurative of Ninevitish king (object not expressed). |