Greek verb · G4155
πνίγω
pnigopnee'-go
to choke
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pnígō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4155is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4155
to wheeze, i.e. (causative, by implication) to throttle or strangle (drown)
The King James renders it: choke, take by the throat.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pnigo is rendered "to choke". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Matthew 13:7ἔπνιξαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- choked2
- he was throttling1
- they were drowned1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀπέπνιξαν1
- ἔπνιγεν1
- ἐπνίγοντο1
- ἔπνιξαν1
The grammar of each form
- PREP + G4155=V-AAI-3P1PREP + G4155=V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IPI-3P
Matthew
two uses
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- ἔπνιξανepnixanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: choked
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
- ἔπνιγενepnigenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was throttling
Mark
one use
He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
- ἐπνίγοντοepnigontoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were drowned
Luke
one use
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
- ἀπέπνιξανapepnixanPREP + G4155=V-AAI-3Ptagged: choked
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.