Reference: Strangling
Hastings
This is suggested as a mode of death, Job 7:15. The cognate verb describes the manner of Ahithophel's self-inflicted death (2Sa 17:23, English Version 'hanged himself'; cf. Mt 27:5 of Judas). The idea conveyed is death by suffocation, not necessarily produced by suspension. Elsewhere, where hanging is mentioned in English Version as a mode of punishment, some form of impalement is intended (see Crimes and Punishments,
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And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.
But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.