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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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πνίγω

Strong’s: G4155

Associated OET lemmas: πνίγω

Other spellings: πνίγομαι

Notes: It is possible that ἀποπνίγω and συμπνίγω[a] are somewhat more intensive in meaning than πνίγω[b], but this is difficult, if not impossible, to determine on the basis of NT usage.; It is possible that ἀποπνίγομαι differs from πνίγομαι in being somewhat more intensive in meaning, but this cannot be determined with accuracy on the basis of existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἀποπνίγω · πνικτός · συμπνίγω

Sense 1: to choke

Semantic entry: 19.53

Semantic domains: Physical Impact

Subdomains: Press

Definition: to apply pressure around the neck in order to harm or kill

MAT 18:28: RV MAT 18:28 · LV MAT 18:28 · Read together MAT 18:28

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OET-RV MAT 18:28

28 “But when the slave got outside, he found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a few thousand. He grabbed him and was strangling him with his hands, saying, ‘Give back what you owe!’

OET-LV MAT 18:28

28 But the that slave having_come_out, found one of_the fellow-slaves of_him, who was_owing a_hundred daʸnarion_coins to_him, and having_apprehended him, he_was_strangling him saying:
Give_back if anything you_are_owing.

Sense 2: to cause plants to die

Semantic entry: 23.120

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Live, Die

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning employing the base πνίγω[a] ‘to choke,’ 19.53: πνίγω) to cause the death of plants by other plants crowding them out and/or overshadowing them{N:001}

MAT 13:7: RV MAT 13:7 · LV MAT 13:7 · Read together MAT 13:7

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OET-RV MAT 13:7

7 Some seed fell in a thistle patch, but the thistles grew over them and choked them out.

OET-LV MAT 13:7

7 On_the_other_hand others fell on the thorns, and the thorns went_up and choked_ them _out.

Sense 3: to drown

Semantic entry: 23.119

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Live, Die

Definition: to die as the result of drowning ‎{N:002}

Forms: πνίγομαι

MRK 5:13: RV MRK 5:13 · LV MRK 5:13 · Read together MRK 5:13

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OET-RV MRK 5:13

13 Yeshua agreed to that, so the ungodly spirits came out of the man, went into the pigs, and the entire herd of some two thousand pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

OET-LV MRK 5:13

13 And he_permitted to_them.
And the the unclean spirits having_come_out, came_in into the pigs, and the herd about two_thousand rushed down the steep_bank into the sea and they_were_being_drowned in the sea.