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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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ἀποπνίγω

Strong’s: G638

Associated OET lemmas: ἀποπνίγω

Other spellings: ἀποπνίγομαι

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

Inflections: ἀποπνίγω; aor.pass.; ἀπεπνίγηνῃ

Related lemmas: πνίγω

Sense 1: 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}

LUK 8:7: RV LUK 8:7 · LV LUK 8:7 · Read together LUK 8:7

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OET-RV LUK 8:7

7 Some of the seeds landed in a patch of thistles, and as the plants started to grow, they were choked out by the thistles.

OET-LV LUK 8:7

7 And other fell in the_midst of_the thorns, and having_been_grown_up the thorns choked_ it _out.

Sense 2: 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: ἀποπνίγομαι

LUK 8:33: RV LUK 8:33 · LV LUK 8:33 · Read together LUK 8:33

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OET-RV LUK 8:33

33 So the demons rushed out of the man and into the pigs, and all the pigs then rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

OET-LV LUK 8:33

33 And the demons having_come_out from the man, they_came_in into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep_bank into the lake, and was_drowned.