Strong's #2614: chanaq (pronounced khaw-nak')

a primitive root (compare 2596); to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) to choke oneself to death (by a rope):--hang self, strangle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chânaq

1) to strangle, strangle oneself

1a) (Niphal) to strangle oneself

1b) (Piel) to strangle

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H2596]

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

2 Samuel 17:23: "his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher"
Nahum 2:12: "did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,"