Original: συμπνίγω

Transliteration: sympnígō

Phonetic: soom-pnee'-go

Short Definition: Choke

- Original: συμπνίγω

- Transliteration: Sumpnigo

- Phonetic: soom-pnee'-go

- Definition:

1. to choke utterly

a. metaph. the seed of the divine word sown in the mind

b. to press round or throng one so as almost to suffocate him

- Origin: from G4862 and G4155

- TDNT entry: 13:35,9

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G4862 and G4155; to strangle completely that is (literally) to drown or (figuratively) to crowd: - choke throng.

Cognate: G4155, G4156, G638