G931 βάσανος

Strong's Greek Concordance · 3 KJV occurrences

βάσανος

básanos

Definition

a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture

KJV Renderings

torment

Derivation / Etymology

perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (βάσις) (through the notion of going to the bottom);

KJV Verses (3)

Matthew 4:24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Luke 16:23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.