G931 – basanos – βάσανος – torment
- Strong’s ID:
- G931
- Greek Word:
- βάσανος
- Transliteration:
- basanos
- Pronunciation:
- bas’-an-os
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 3
- Search:
- Find “basanos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) 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) 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
3a) of the pains of a disease
3b) of those in hell after death
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.