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# מַחֲנָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4267

**strangling** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strangling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4267/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲנָק: strangling, suffocation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4267/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] strangling, suffocation, as a mode of death, וַתִּבְחַר מַחֲנָק נַפְשִׁי Jb 7:15 and my soul chooseth strangling (‖ מָוֶת).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: strangling (1).

## In the verses

[Job 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.15/#tree)

וַתִּבְחַ֣ר מַחֲנָ֣ק נַפְשִׁ֑י מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.chose strangling self my death more than my.bones

*JPS 1917:* So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4267.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4267/): 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).