πνικτός
pniktos · strangled
Greek word · Strong’s number G4156 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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pniktos (πνικτός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “strangled”.
An animal killed without draining its blood.
How to say it
pnik·tos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Meat of an animal killed without draining its blood.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- what is strangled ×2
- things strangled ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 15:20
but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.
- Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
- Acts 21:25
But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.”