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is used, in the Passive Voice, of "perishing by drowning," Mark 5:13; in the Active, "to seize a person's throat, to throttle," Matthew 18:28 . See THROAT.
a strengthened form of No. 1 (apo, "from," intensive; cp. Eng., "to choke off"), is used metaphorically, of "thorns crowding out seed sown and preventing its growth," Matthew 13:7; Luke 8:7 . It is Luke's word for "suffocation by drowning," Luke 8:33 (cp. Mark 5:13 , above).
gives the suggestion of "choking together" (sun, "with"), i.e., by crowding, Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:7,19; Luke 8:14 . It is used in Luke 8:42 , of the crowd that thronged the Lord, almost, so to speak, to suffocation.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Choke'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/choke.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Choke'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/choke.html. 1940.