519. apagchó
Strong's Concordance
apagchó: to strangle, hang oneself
Original Word: ἀπάγχω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apagchó
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ang'-khom-ahee)
Short Definition: I choke, strangle
Definition: I choke, strangle; mid: I strangle or hang myself.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 519: ἀπάγχω

ἀπάγχω (cf. Latinangustus,anxius, English anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166): 1 aorist middle ἀπηγξαμην; to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way (ἀπό away, cf. ἀποκτείνω to kill off), Homer, Odyssey 19, 230; middle to hang oneself, to end one's life by hanging: Matthew 27:5. (2 Samuel 17:23; Tobit 3:10; in Attic from Aeschylus down.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
hang himself.

From apo and agcho (to choke; akin to the base of agkale); to strangle oneself off (i.e. To death) -- hang himself.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK agkale

Forms and Transliterations
απηγξατο απήγξατο ἀπήγξατο apenxato apēnxato apḗnxato
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Strong's Greek 519
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ἀπήγξατο — 1 Occ.

Matthew 27:5 V-AIM-3S
GRK: καὶ ἀπελθὼν ἀπήγξατο
NAS: and he went away and hanged himself.
KJV: and went and hanged himself.
INT: and having gone away hanged himself

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