βάσανος
básanos
“a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. lapis Lydius, a species of stone from Lydia, which being applied to metals was thought to indicate any alloy which might be mixed with them, and therefore used in the trial of metals; hence, examination of a person, especially by torture; in NT torture, torment, severe pain, Mt. 4:24; Lk. 16:23, 28*
Translated in KJV as
torment
Etymology
perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (βάσις) (through the notion of going to the bottom);
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