G929 – basanismos – βασανισμός – torment
- Strong’s ID:
- G929
- Greek Word:
- βασανισμός
- Transliteration:
- basanismos
- Pronunciation:
- bas-an-is-mos’
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 6
- Search:
- Find “basanismos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G928; torture:—torment.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to torture, a testing by the 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) torment, torture
2a) the act of tormenting
2b) the state or condition of those tormented
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.