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# חָנַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2614

**strangle** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strangle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2614/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנַק: vb. strangle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2614/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strangle (NH id., Aramaic חֲנַק, ܚܢܰܩ; Arabic خَنَقَ );— Impf. וַיֵּחָנַ֑ק 2 S 17:23 strangled himself (+ וַיָּ֫מָת). Pt. מְחַנֵּק Na 2:13 strangle, of lion strangling prey, fig. of Ninevitish king (object not expressed).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[it was\] strangling (1); he hanged himself (1).

## In the verses

[Nahum 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/#tree)

אַרְיֵ֤ה טֹרֵף֙ בְּדֵ֣י גֹֽרוֹתָ֔יו וּמְחַנֵּ֖ק לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו וַיְמַלֵּא־טֶ֣רֶף חֹרָ֔יו וּמְעֹֽנֹתָ֖יו טְרֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].lion \[was\].tearing for the.sufficiency its.cubs his and \[it.was\].strangling for lionesses its and it.filled prey holes its and dens its torn.flesh

*JPS 1917:* The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

[2 Samuel 17:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.23/#tree)

וַאֲחִיתֹ֣פֶל רָאָ֗ה כִּ֣י לֹ֣א נֶעֶשְׂתָה֮ עֲצָתוֹ֒ וַיַּחֲבֹ֣שׁ אֶֽת־הַחֲמ֗וֹר וַיָּ֜קָם וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ אֶל־בֵּיתוֹ֙ אֶל־עִיר֔וֹ וַיְצַ֥ו אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ וַיֵּחָנַ֑ק וַיָּ֕מָת וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּקֶ֥בֶר אָבִֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* and Ahithophel he.saw (dm).that not it.was.done counsel his and he.saddled (et) the donkey and he.arose and he.went to house his to city his and he.commanded concerning household his and he.hanged.himself and he.died and he.was.buried in the.tomb his.father his

*JPS 1917:* And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2614.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2614/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).