Hebrew word · H4267

מַחֲנָק

machanak

strangling

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

1) strangling, suffocation

1a) as a mode of death

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Similar words

Where it appears

Job · 1

  1. Job 7:15 מַחֲנָ֣ק strangling

    so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

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