βάσανος
básanos · G931 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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torment, severe pain, severe suffering
Severe pain associated with torture and torment
ExamplesMatthew 4:24 And the news about Him spread throughout Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and severe pain, demon-possessed, people with epilepsy, and people who were paralyzed; and He healed them.
Luke 16:23 “And in Hades he raised his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his arms.
Luke 16:28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not come to this place of torment as well.’
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποικίλοςof various kinds 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τόποςplace 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 suffering, as of the rich man in torment in Hades in Luke 16:23-28 and the Gentiles' diseases and torments Jesus heals in Matthew 4:24.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βασάνου, ἡ (Curtius, p. 439); a. the touchstone (called also basanite, LatinlapisLydius),…
a. the touchstone (called also basanite, LatinlapisLydius), by which gold and other metals are tested.
b. the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth.
c. torture, torment, acute pains: used of the pains of disease, Mt 4:24; of the torments of the wicked after death, ἐν βασάνοις ὑπάρχειν, Lk 16:23 (Wis. 3:1; 4 Macc. 13:14); hence, ὁ τόπος τῆς βασάνου is used of Gehenna, Lk 16:28. (In Greek writings from (Theognis), Pindar down.)
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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