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 Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.