ἀπάγχομαι
apánchomai · G519 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to hang oneself, to commit suicide
To cause one’s own death by hanging
ExamplesMatthew 27:5 And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and left; and he went away and hanged himself.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- חָנַק chânaq · H2614 · to hang oneself, to strangle
- Hebrew verb for strangling/choking, used reflexively or in contexts of death by strangulation; the core semantic equivalent for the Greek ἀπάγχομαι in the sense of death by hanging/strangulation
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To hang oneself, to commit suicide20.81
- In Matthew 27:5, after casting the pieces of silver into the temple, Judas “went away and hanged himself (apḗnxato),” describing his own act of taking his life.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (cf. Latinangustus,anxius, English anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166): 1 aorist middle…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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