Strong’s G638 · Greek
ἀποπνίγω
apopnígō · ap-op-nee'-go
Origin from ἀπό (G575) and πνίγω (G4155);
Meaning to stifle (by drowning or overgrowth)
In the King James Version choke.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 13:7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Luke 8:7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
- Luke 8:33Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.