βάσανος
basanos · torment
Greek word · Strong’s number G931 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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basanos (βάσανος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “torment”.
Severe pain.
How to say it
ba·sa·nos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Severe pain, as from torture.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- torment ×2
- torments ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 4:24
And the report about him went out into all Syria; and they brought to him all those who were ill, afflicted with various diseases and torments, the demon-possessed and the moonstruck and paralytics, and he healed them.
- Luke 16:23
And in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
- Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers —so that he may testify to them, so that they also may not come to this place of torment.’