'Choke' in the Bible
and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe.’
and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
'And other fell amidst the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it, did choke it.