noun · feminine
basanas
Strong’sG931
torture, torment
stem basan-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
βάσανος, -ου, ὁ (of Oriental origin),
[in LXX chiefly for כְּלִמָּה,אָשָׁם, and freq. in IV Mac;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G931 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbas'-an-os
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
Fromperhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom);
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
touchstone, on which pure gold leaves a yellow streak, ἐς βάσανον δ᾽ ἐλθὼν παρατρίβομαι ὥστε μολύβδῳ χρυσός Refs 6th c.BC+
II the use of this as a test, χρυσὸς ἐν β. πρέπει Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, test, trial of genuineness, οὐκ ἔστιν μείζων β. χρόνου [Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς β. εἶ χερῶν wilt come to a trial of strength, Refs 5th c.BC+; [νόσου] ἔσχ᾽ ἐπὶ σοὶ βάσανον had experienced it in you, i. e. you had had it first, Refs; βάσανον ὑποκείσονται will be subjected to a test, of candidates, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III inquiry by torture, ἐς πᾶσαν β. ἀπικνέεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; especially at Athens, used to extort evidence from slaves, εἰς β. δέχεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, confession upon torture, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 agony of battle, ἡ κατὰ τὸ ἔργον β. Refs 2nd c.AD+; tortures of disease, NT+2nd c.AD+; torments of hell,NT
III.3 trespass-offering, LXX
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 | basanas | basanais |
| object accusative | basanan | basanain |
| direct address vocative | basanar | basanair |
| of, belonging to genitive | basanau1×βασάνου | basanaiu |
| to, for dative | basana | basanai2×βασάνοις |
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
basana 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
basanau“torment”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 16:28… erchaleia eis ton topon houton tau basanau.… end up in this place of torment.’
basanai“pains”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 4:24“pains”… toin kakōs echarōntoin poikilai nosai kai basanai sunechorōntoin, daimonizorōntoin kai selēniazorōntoin kai paralutikoin, …… ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed …
Luke 16:23… epararantos toin ofthalmoin autou, huparcharōntos en basanai, horatō Abraam apo makrothen kai Lazaron …In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham …