Greek noun (masculine) · G929
βασανισμός
basanismosbas-an-is-mos'
torment
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: basanismós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G929is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G929
torture
The King James renders it: torment.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
basanismos is rendered "torment". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 9:5The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
Revelation 9:5βασανισμὸς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- torment6
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βασανίζω | basanizo | to torture: anguish | Uses12 |
| βάσανος | basanos | torment | Uses3 |
| βασανιστής | basanistes | torturer | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βασανισμοῦ3
- βασανισμὸς2
- βασανισμὸν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular3N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
Revelation
six uses
The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
- βασανισμὸςbasanismosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: torment
- βασανισμὸςbasanismosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: torment
And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
- βασανισμοῦbasanismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: torment
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
- βασανισμὸνbasanismonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: torment
In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- βασανισμοῦbasanismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: torment
The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- βασανισμοῦbasanismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: torment
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.