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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g4155 Greek: pnigo

Choke:

is used, in the Passive Voice, of "perishing by drowning," Mar 5:13; in the Active, "to seize a person's throat, to throttle," Mat 18:28.
See THROAT.

2 Strong's Number: g638 Greek: apopnigo

Choke:

a strengthened form of No. 1 (apo, "from," intensive; cp. Eng., "to choke off"), is used metaphorically, of "thorns crowding out seed sown and preventing its growth," Mat 13:7; Luk 8:7. It is Luke's word for "suffocation by drowning," Luk 8:33 (cp. Mar 5:13, above).

3 Strong's Number: g4846 Greek: sumpnigo

Choke:

gives the suggestion of "choking together" (sun, "with"), i.e., by crowding, Mat 13:22; Mar 4:7, 19; Luk 8:14. It is used in Luk 8:42, of the crowd that thronged the Lord, almost, so to speak, to suffocation.

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