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- חֲנַקch. to strangle. Targ. II Esth. 1:3.Keth.60b וחֲנַקְתֵּיה she choked her child to death; דלא … דחַנְקַן בנייהו for women (of sound mind) will not choke their children (in order to be allowed tomarry again before the lapse of a certain time). Y.Taan.IV, 69b top. הוה … והוה ח׳ ליה air burst forth out of the bottle and choked him. Y.Ab. Zar. II, 40d חַנְקַת גרמה she hanged herself. Y.Ber.II, 5a top בעייא … מִיחְנְקוּנֵיה I would rather choke him; a. e.Gitt.67b דחַנְקָא, v. דִּיסְתָּנָא I. Ithpa. אִתְחַנֵּק to hang ones self. Targ. 2 Sam. 17:23.Y.Snh.X, 29a bot. כדון דוד מִתְחַנֵּק now David will die in despair (cmp. preced. Nif.). Ib. יהא סופיה מִתְחַנְּקָא will end his life by suicide.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.