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 donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.
And concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.