Strong's Lexicon
G4156
G4156 — πνικτός
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4156 |
|---|---|
| Word: | πνικτός |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Etymology: | from G4155 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 3 |
| Transliteration: | pniktos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | pnik-tos' |
| Meaning: | 1. throttled 2. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled) |
| KJV Renderings: | strangled |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πνικτός, πνικτη, πνικτόν (πνίγω), suffocated, strangled: τό πνικτόν (what is strangled, i. e.) an animal deprived of life without shedding its blood, Act 15:20; Act 15:29; Act 21:25. ((Several times in Athen. and other later writ, chiefly of cookery; cf. our smothered as a culinary term.))
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
πνικτός (strangled)
Acts 15:20
- KJV: But that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and fornication and things strangled and blood
- GK: αλλά επιστείλαι αυτοίς του απέχεσθαι από των αλισγημάτων των ειδώλων και της πορνείας και του πνικτού και του αίματος
Acts 15:29
- KJV: 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
- GK: απέχεσθαι ειδωλοθύτων και αίματος και πνικτού και πορνείας εξ ων διατηρούντες εαυτούς ευ πράξετε έρρωσθε
Acts 21:25
- KJV: As touching the Gentiles which believe we have written concluded that they observe no such thing save only that they keep themselves from to idols and from blood and from strangled and from fornication
- GK: περί δε των πεπιστευκότων εθνών ημείς επεστείλαμεν κρίναντες μηδέν τοιούτον τηρείν αυτούς ει φυλάσσεσθαι αυτούς το τε ειδωλόθυτον και το αίμα και πνικτόν και πορνείαν