STRONGS NUMBER G929


Word Summary
basanismos: torture
Original Word: βασανισμός
Transliteration: basanismos
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-an-is-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: torture
Meaning: torture
Strong's Concordance
torment.

From basanizo; torture -- torment.

see GREEK basanizo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 929: βασανισμός

βασανισμός, βασανισμοῦ, (βασανίζω, which see);

1. a testing by the touchstone or by torture.

2. torment, torture;

a. the act of tormenting: Revelation 9:5.

b. the state or condition of those tormented: Revelation 18:7, 10, 15; καπνός τοῦ βασανισμοῦ αὐτῶν the smoke of the fire by which they are tormented, Revelation 14:11. (4 Macc. 9:6; 11:2; (others); bad wine is called βασανισμός by Alexis in Athen. 1, 56, p. 30 f.)