τυμπανίζω
tympanízō · G5178 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to torture, to torment
To punish by physical torture or torment
ExamplesHebrews 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;
How it’s used In 1 role
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄλλοςother, another 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- βασανίζω basanízō · G928 · to torture, to torment
- Both denote the infliction of torture, with τυμπανίζω specifying a particular method (stretching on a drum-like instrument and beating to death) while βασανίζω covers torture more generally.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To torture, to torment38.13
- Hebrews 11:35 — “Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (τύμπανον); 1. to beat the drum or timbrel. 2. to torture with the tympanum, an…
1. to beat the drum or timbrel.
2. to torture with the tympanum, an instrument of punishment: ἐτυμπανίσθησαν (Vulg.distenti sunt), Heb 11:35 (R. V. were tortured (with margin, Or, beaten to death)) (Plutarch, mor., p. 60 a.; joined with ἀνασκολοπίζεσθαι, Lucian, Jup. trag. 19); the tympanum seems to have been a wheel-shaped instrument of torture, over which criminals were stretched as though they were skins, and then horribly beaten with clubs or thongs (cf. our 'to break upon the wheel'; see English Dicts. under the word ); cf. (Bleek on Heb. as above); Grimm on 2 Macc. 6:19f
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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