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Strong's #4156: pniktos (pronounced pnik-tos')

from 4155; throttled, i.e. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled):--strangled.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pniktos

1) suffocate, strangled

1a) what is strangled, i.e. an animal deprived of life without the shedding of blood

1b) of cooking: our "smothered" as a culinary term

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from G4155

Citing in TDNT: 6:455, 895




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Acts 15:20: "and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."
Acts 15:29: "and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:"
Acts 15:29: "and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:"
Acts 21:25: "and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication."









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