Greek noun (feminine) · G931
βάσανος
basanosbas'-an-os
prop.; examination by torture; torment, torture
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: básanos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G931is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G931
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) 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
basanos is rendered "prop.; examination by torture; torment, torture". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "prop.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:24News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
Matthew 4:24βασάνοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: prop., and examination by torture, and torment, torture.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop.touchstone, a dark stone used in testing metals. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 4:24News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various… |
| examination by torture | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| torment, tortureMat.4:24, Luk.15:23, 28. † (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 4:24News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various… |
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 |
| βασανισμός | basanismos | torment | Uses6 |
| βασανιστής | basanistes | torturer | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- βασάνοις2
- βασάνου.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
one use
News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
- βασάνοιςbasanoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: by pains
Luke
two uses
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
- βασάνοιςbasanoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: torment
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
- βασάνου.¶basanounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of 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.