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Strong's #4156 - πνικτός
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- suffocate, strangled
- what is strangled, i.e. an animal deprived of life without the shedding of blood
- of cooking: our "smothered" as a culinary term
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πνικ-τός, ή, όν,
strangled, Acts 15:20, al.
2. air-tight, Hero Spir. 1.3, 16,al. Adv. -τῶς ib. 2.21 .
II baked or stewed (cf. πνίγω 11 ), Pherecr. 175, Stratt. 29, Antiph. 1.4, etc.
πνικτός, πνικτη, πνικτόν (πνίγω), suffocated, strangled: τό πνικτόν (what is strangled, i. e.) an animal deprived of life without shedding its blood, Acts 15:20, 29; Acts 21:25. ((Several times in Athen. and other later writ, chiefly of cookery; cf. our smothered as a culinary term.))
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* πνικτός , -ή , -όν
(< πνίγω ),
strangled : Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29; Acts 21:25 (cf. Leviticus 17:13-14).†
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";I make a prior accusation,"; has not as yet been found elsewhere than in Romans 3:9 (see s.v. αἰτιάομαι); but for προαιτία Herwerden (Lex. s.v.) now cites Damascius in Bekkeri Anecdota 1413.
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