noun · masculine
basanismos
Strong’sG929
torture, torment
stem basanism-6 times in the New Testament3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** βασανισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< βασανίζω), [in LXX: IV Mac 9:6 11:2*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G929 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbas-an-is-mos'
torture
Fromfrom G928;
King Jamestorment.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
torture: ὁ γὰρ Κορίνθιος (i.e. οἶνος) β. ἐστι NT+2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | basanismos2×βασανισμὸς | basanismois |
| object accusative | basanismon1×βασανισμὸν | basanismoin |
| direct address vocative | basanismor | basanismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | basanismou3×βασανισμοῦ | basanismoiu |
| to, for dative | basanismo | basanismoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
basanismo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
basanismos“torment”subjectnominative singular2×
Revelation 9:5… hina basanizili mēnoin pente; kai tos basanismos autaiu hōs basanismos skorpiou, hotan paiateia …… them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a …
Revelation 9:5“torment”… pente; kai tos basanismos autaiu hōs basanismos skorpiou, hotan paiateia anthrōpon.… them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
basanismon“torment”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 18:7… heautan kai strēniata, tosouton dōavar auta basanismon kai penthem. hoti en ta kardia …… give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she …
basanismou“torment”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Revelation 14:11kai tos kapnos tou basanismou autoiu eis aiōnoin aiōnoiu anabainatō, kai …And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and …
Revelation 18:10… makrothen stēarēntois dia ton fobon tou basanismou autau legarōntois; Ouai ouai, tas polar …In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance …
Revelation 18:15… makrothen stēeli dia ton fobon tou basanismou autau klaiarōntois kai pentharōntois,… a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,