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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When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter [after] deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and [what has been] strangled and sexual immorality."