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G4156

πνικτός

pniktos

Adjective · From πνίγω (G4155)

From G4155; throttled, i.e. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled):—strangled.

Outline

  1. suffocate, strangled
    1. what is strangled, i.e. an animal deprived of life without the shedding of blood
    2. of cooking: our "smothered" as a culinary term

Usages

Acts 15:20

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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Acts 15:29

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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Acts 21:25

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Breakdown

Gentiles which believe Israelite foreigners. fornication adultery.

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