תשנוק

תַּשְׁנוּק, תַּשְׁנִיקm. (שָׁנַק) strangulation, suffocation; trnsf. anguish. Y.Ber.IV, 7b bot. (ref. to שנער, Gen. 11:2; V. Targ. O. to Ex. 14:27 שַׁנֵּיק for h. text נִעֵר) שנער שהם מתים בת׳וכ׳ Babylonia is called Shinar, because they (the Babylonians) die in anguish, without light and without baths; Gen. R. s. 37; Lam. R. introd. (R. Josh. 2) (some ed. בתַשְׁנֵק); Koh. R. to XII, 7; Yalk. Gen. 62.