King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G928
Transliteration: basanizō
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-an-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to torture
Meaning: to torture
βασανίζω: (imperfect ἐβασάνιζον); 1 aorist ἐβασανισα; passive (present βασανίζομαι); 1 aorist ἐβασανίσθην; 1 future βασανισθήσομαι; (βάσανος);
Word Summary
basanizō: to torture
Original Word: βασανίζωTransliteration: basanizō
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-an-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to torture
Meaning: to torture
Strong's Concordance
pain, toil, tormentFrom basanos; to torture -- pain, toil, torment, toss, vex.
see GREEK basanos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 928: βασανίζωβασανίζω: (imperfect ἐβασάνιζον); 1 aorist ἐβασανισα; passive (present βασανίζομαι); 1 aorist ἐβασανίσθην; 1 future βασανισθήσομαι; (βάσανος);
1. properly, to test (metals) by the touchstone.
2. to question by applying torture.
3. to torture (2 Macc. 7:13); hence,
4. universally, to vex with grievous pains (of body or mind), to torment: τινα, Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7; Luke 8:28; 2 Peter 2:8; Revelation 11:10; passively, Matthew 8:6; Revelation 9:5; Revelation 20:10; of the pains of childbirth, Revelation 12:2 (cf. Anthol. 2, p. 205, Jacobs edition); with ἐν and the dative of the material in which one is tormented, Revelation 14:10.
5. Passive to be harassed, distressed; of those who at sea are struggling with a head wind, Mark 6:48; of a ship tossed by the waves, Matthew 14:24. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down. Often in O. T. Apocrypha.)