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Strong's #638 - ἀποπνίγω
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- to choke
- to suffocate with water, drown
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ἀποπνίγω [ῑ ],
fut. -πνίξω Pl. Com.198, Antiph. 171: aor. inf. ἀποπνεῖξαι GDI 2171.18 (Delph., i B. C.): —
1. choke, throttle, Hdt. 2.169,al.; τὰς ἀναπνοάς Hp. Morb.Sacr. 9; τοὺς πατέρας τ' ἦγχον.. καὶ τοὺς πάππους ἀπέπνιγον Ar. V. 1039; suffocate, Id. Eq. 893; of plants, choke, Matthew 13:7, Luke 8:7 : — Pass., fut. -πνῐγήσομαι Ar. Nu. 1504; also -πεπνίξομαι Eun. VS p.463 B.: aor. I ἀπεπνίχθην Aret. SA 1.7: aor. 2 ἀπεπνίγην [ῐ ] (v. infr.): pf. part. -πεπνιγμένος Hdt. 4.72: — to bechoked, suffocated, τρώγων ἐρεβίνθους ἀπεπνίγη Pherecr. 159, cf. Alex. 266; to be drowned, Democr. 172, D. 32.6, Aesop. 352. generally, cut off, kill, λιμῷ τινα Aret. CA 1.9: — Pass., πόλις ἀ. τῇ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σπάϝει Procop. Arc. 26.
2. metaph., choke one with vexation, ἀποπνίξεις με λαλῶν Antiph. l.c.; ἦ γάρ [με] γειτονεῦσ' ἀποπνίγεις Call. Iamb. 1.300: — Pass., to be choked with rage, ἐπί τινι at a thing, D. 19.199, cf. Alex. 16.7; πρός τι Lib. Or. 63.15.
ἀποπνίγω: 1 aorist ἀπεπνιξα; 2 aorist passive ἀπεπνιγην; (ἀπό as in ἀποκτείνω which see (cf. to choke off)); to choke: Matthew 13:7 (T WH marginal reading ἔπνιξαν); Luke 8:7 (of seed overlaid by thorns and killed by them); to suffocate with water, to drown, Luke 8:33 (as in Demosthenes 32, 6 (i. e., p. 883, 28 etc.; schol. ad Euripides, Or. 812)).
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ἀπο -πνίγω ,
[in LXX: Nahum 2:13 (H2614 pi.), Tobit 3:8*;]
to choke: Matthew 13:7, Luke 8:7; pass., of drowning (= καταποντίζομαι ), Luke 8:33.†
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Herwerden cites from BCH xvi. p. 384, no. 81, a deed of manumission from Delphi in which the inhuman clause is inserted—εἰ δέ τι γένοιτο ἐγ Διοκλέας τέκνον ἐν τῶι τᾶς παραμονᾶς χρόνωι, εἴ κα μὲν θέληι ἀποπνεῖξαι, ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν. A literary citation may be added from the new fragments of Callimachus, P Oxy VII. 1011.299 f. (late iv/A.D.),
ὡς δὴ μἴ ἡμέων καὶ σὺ μή με ποιῆσαι
εὔστεκτον, ἦ γὰρ γειτονεῦς᾽ ἀποπνίγεις
which Prof. Hunt renders, ";Don’t you prescribe patience to me, as if you were one of us; your very presence chokes me.";
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