Strangle

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

(2): ( v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.

(3): ( v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

(4): ( v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( חַנֵּק , Πνίγω , To Choke ) . Animals put to death by strangulation, not having the blood properly separated from the flesh, could not therefore be eaten without a violation of the Noachic precept ( Genesis 9:4). The primitive Christians abstained from them, principally to avoid giving offense to the Jewish converts ( Acts 15:20). (See Alisgema); (See Blood).