pniktos refers to what is prohibited alongside blood, idol-related things, and sexual immorality.

Across its attestations, the term occurs in instructions to abstain from an item listed with blood, idol-related things, and sexual immorality; the APB presents that item as “what has been strangled” or “what is strangled.”

1. An item from which believers are to abstain · dominant

   In Acts 15:20 and Acts 15:29, genitive neuter forms occur after instructions to abstain, within lists that also include blood and sexual immorality; the APB renders the relevant item “what has been strangled.” In Acts 21:25, the accusative neuter singular likewise stands in the list of things the Gentiles should keep themselves from, where the APB renders “what is strangled.”

   Acts 15:20Acts 15:29Acts 21:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the listed item as “what has been strangled” in Acts 15:20 and Acts 15:29, and “what is strangled” in Acts 21:25. These are translation renderings of the verse context rather than definitions.