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ἀπάγχω

apagchōG:V

to strangle

ἀπ-άγχω (ἄγχω, to press, strangle), [in LXX: 2Ki.17:23 (חָנַק), Tob.3:10 * ;] to strangle; mid., to hang oneself (or, to choke; see M, Pr., 155): Mat.27:5.† (AS)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ἀπάγχομαι — apánchomai

ἀπάγχω (cf. Latinangustus,anxius, English anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166): 1 aorist middle ἀπηγξαμην; to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way (ἀπό away, cf. ἀποκτείνω to kill off), Homer, Odyssey 19, 230; middle to hang oneself, to end one's life by hanging: Mat 27:5. (2Sa 17:23; Tob 3:10; in Attic from Aeschylus down.)

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