Word Summary
machanaq: strangling, suffocation
Original Word: מַחֲנַקTransliteration: machanaq
Phonetic Spelling: (makh-an-ak')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: strangling, suffocation
Meaning: strangling, suffocation
Strong's Concordance
strangling
From chanaq: choking -- strangling.
see HEBREW chanaq
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4267. machanaq
מַחֲנָק noun [masculine] strangling, suffocation, as a mode of death, נַפְשִׁי מַחֲנָק וַתִּבְחַר Job 7:15 and my soul chooseth strangling ("" מָוֶת).
חַנָּתֹן see sub. חִנן