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G931

βάσανος

basanos

Masculine noun · Perhaps remotely from the same as βάσις (G939) (through the notion of going to the bottom)

Perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture:—torment.

Outline

  1. a touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the colour of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal
  2. the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth
  3. torture, torment, acute pains
    1. of the pains of a disease
    2. of those in hell after death

Usages

Matthew 4:24

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

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Luke 16:23

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Breakdown

hell slavery. afar off The Edomites will be kept far away from the Israelites.

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Luke 16:28

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

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