G931: βάσανος
básanos · “torment”
Definition
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
KJV translates it as: torment
Word origin: perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (βάσις) (through the notion of going to the bottom);
Extended definition
[in LXX chiefly for כְּלִמָּה ,אָשָׁם, and frequently in 4Mac ;]
1. prop., touchstone, a dark stone used in testing metals.
2. examination by torture.
3. torment, torture: Mat.4:24, Luk.15:23, 28.
† (AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G931 is translated
- by pains ×1
- torment ×1
- of torment. ×1
Bible verses with G931 (básanos)
Básanos appears in 3 verses.
- 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.
- Luke 16:23
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
- Luke 16:28
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.