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πνιγμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνιγμός πνιγμοῦ

Structure: πνιγμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pni/gw

Sense

  1. a choking or being choked

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν προφητεύειν ἤρξατο τοῦ θείου πνεύματοσ εἰσ αὐτὸν μετοικισαμένου, τὸν Σαοῦλον δὲ περιήρχετο πάθη τινὰ καὶ δαιμόνια πνιγμοὺσ αὐτῷ καὶ στραγγάλασ ἐπιφέροντα, ὡσ τοὺσ ἰατροὺσ ἄλλην μὲν αὐτῷ θεραπείαν μὴ ἐπινοεῖν, εἰ δέ τίσ ἐστιν ἐξᾴδειν δυνάμενοσ καὶ ψάλλειν ἐπὶ κινύρᾳ τοῦτον ἐκέλευσαν ζητήσαντασ, ὁπόταν αὐτῷ προσίῃ τὰ δαιμόνια καὶ ταράττῃ, ποιεῖν ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ στάντα ψάλλειν τε καὶ τοὺσ ὕμνουσ ἐπιλέγειν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 212:2)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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