Strong’s
H2614Verb2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- 2 Samuel 17:23וַיֵּחָנַק
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
- Nahum 2:12וּמְחַנֵּק
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[חָנַק] vb. strangle
Niph. strangled himself
Pi. strangle, of lion strangling prey, fig. of Ninevitish king
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.