Strong’s H2614 · Hebrew
חָנַק
chânaq · khaw-nak'
Origin a primitive root (compare חָנַךְ (H2596));
Meaning to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) to choke oneself to death (by a rope)
In the King James Version hang self, strangle.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Samuel 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
- Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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.