Strong's Definition
a primitive root (compare 2596); to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) to choke oneself to death (by a rope)
KJV Usage: hang self, strangle
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָנַק (cha.naq) — to strangle. 1) to strangle, strangle oneself 1a) (Niphal) to strangle oneself 1b) (Piel) to strangle
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַחֲנָק
Dead | verb nif
to strangle oneself (with a rope around the neck), to hang oneself = action by which humans kill themselves ◄ by cutting their air supply
Dead | verb pi | ≈ טרף
to strangle = causative action by which animals kill other living creatures ◄ by cutting off their air supply
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָנַק] vb. strangle Niph. strangled himself
Pi. strangle, of lion strangling prey, fig. of Ninevitish king
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