Lexical Summary sympnigō: to choke Original Word: συμπνίγωTransliteration: sympnigō Phonetic Spelling: (soom-pnee'-go) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to choke Meaning: to choke Strong's Concordance choke, throng. From sun and pnigo; to strangle completely, i.e. (literally) to drown, or (figuratively) to crowd -- choke, throng. see GREEK sun see GREEK pnigo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4846: συμπνίγωσυμπνίγω (T WH συνπνίγω (cf. σύν, II. at the end)); imperfect συνέπνιγον; 1 aorist συνέπνιξα; present passive 3 person plural συμπνίγονται; to choke utterly: the seed of the divine word sown in the mind, Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:7, 19 (δένδρα συμπνιγομενα, Theophrastus, c. plant. 6, 11, 6); συμπνίγονται, they are choked, i. e. the seed of the divine word in their minds is choked, Luke 8:14; τινα, to press round or throng one so as almost to suffocate him, Luke 8:42 (A. V. thronged). |
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