Definition

to stifle (by drowning or overgrowth)

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and G4155 (πνίγω);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• πνίγω pnígō

How the KJV renders it

• choke

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.