βασανισμός
basanismós · G929 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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torment, severe pain, severe suffering
Severe pain associated with torture and torment
ExamplesRevelation 9:5 And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.
Revelation 14:11 “And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Revelation 18:7 “To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, to the same extent give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
- σκορπίοςscorpion 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τοσοῦτοςso great, so many 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βασανισμόςtorment 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βασανισμόςtorment 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- φόβοςfear 2
- καπνόςsmoke 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Torment, severe pain, severe suffering24.90
- Used of intense ongoing suffering, as of the torment inflicted by the locusts in Revelation 9:5 and the torment of Babylon's judgment repeated throughout Revelation 18.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βασανισμοῦ, ὁ (βασανίζω, which see); 1. a testing by the touchstone or by torture. 2.…
1. a testing by the touchstone or by torture.
2. torment, torture;
a. the act of tormenting: Rev 9:5.
b. the state or condition of those tormented: Rev 18:7, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:15; ὁ καπνός τοῦ βασανισμοῦ αὐτῶν the smoke of the fire by which they are tormented, Rev 14:11. (4 Macc. 9:6; 11:2; (others); bad wine is called βασανισμός by Alexis in Athen. 1, 56, p. 30 f.)
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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