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Lexicon :: Strong's G4156 - pniktos

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πνικτός
Transliteration
pniktos (Key)
Pronunciation
pnik-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
3x in 3 unique form(s) TR
3x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:455,895

Strong’s Definitions

πνικτός pniktós, pnik-tos'; from G4155; throttled, i.e. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled):—strangled.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4156 in the following manner: strangled (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4156 in the following manner: strangled (3x).

  1. suffocate, strangled

    1. what is strangled, i.e. an animal deprived of life without the shedding of blood

    2. of cooking: our "smothered" as a culinary term

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πνικτός pniktós, pnik-tos'; from G4155; throttled, i.e. (neuter concretely) an animal choked to death (not bled):—strangled.
STRONGS G4156:
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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Acts
15:20; 15:29; 21:25

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4156 matches the Greek πνικτός (pniktos),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20 - Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from eating food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from consuming blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - “As for the Gentile believers, they should do what we already told them in a letter: They should abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
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