κρεμασθῇ [2 vereses](verb 3rd sg aor subj pass) "Were hanged" is kremannymi, which means to "hang up," "hang," "crucify," "hang over," and, in the passive, "to be hung up," "to be hanged," "suspended," "to be wholly taken up with," and, metaphorically, "to be in suspense."  - "Were hung" is from a verb that mean "to hang" and, in the passive, "to be hanged." Interestingly, it also has a little of the sense we used in phrases such as to be "hung up" on something as in to be "wholly taken up with it."