Verb pnigō (to choke, to drown) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

13: 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked (pnigō) them.
18: 28But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him, he was choking (pnigō) him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.'

Mark

5: 13So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned (pnigō) in the sea.