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βασανιστής

basanistḗs · G930 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. prison guard, torturer

    (Derivative of βασανίζω ‘to torture,’) A person serving as a guard in a prison, whose function was to torture prisoners as a phase of judicial examination

    Examples

    Matthew 18:34 “And his master, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he would repay all that was owed him.

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 2 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Prison guard, torturer37.126
Used of those who inflict punishment on a debtor, as of the unforgiving servant handed over to the torturers in Matthew 18:34.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βάσανος básanos · G931 · torment, severe pain, severe suffering · 3×βασανίζω basanízō · G928 · to torture, to torment · 12×βασανισμός basanismós · G929 · torment, severe pain, severe suffering · 6×βασανιστήςbasanistḗs · G930
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βασανιστου, ὁ (βασανίζω), one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack, an…
βασανιστου, ὁ (βασανίζω), one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack, an inquisitor, torturer, ((Antiphon, others); Demosthenes, p. 978, 11; Philo in Flacc. § 11 end; (de concupisc. § 1; quod omn. prob. book 16; Plutarch, an vitios. ad infel. suff. § 2)); used in Mt 18:34 of a jailer (δεσμοφύλαξ Acts 16:23), doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Guard, Watch Over1 occurrence

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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