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βάσανος

Transliteration basanos		Pronunciation bä'-sä-nos (Key)
Part of Speech masculine noun		Root Word (Etymology) Perhaps remotely from the same as βάσις (G939) (through the notion of going to the bottom)
TDNT Reference 1:561,96	Vines View Entry

1) a touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the colour of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal

2) the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth

3) torture, torment, acute pains

a) of the pains of a disease

b) of those in hell after death

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Strong's Number G931 matches the Greek βάσανος (basanos), which occurs 1 time in 1 verse in Mat of the Greek concordance of the KJV
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Mat 4:24

And ²⁵³² his ⁸⁴⁶ fame ¹⁸⁹ went ⁵⁶⁵ throughout ¹⁵¹⁹ all ³⁶⁵⁰ Syria ⁴⁹⁴⁷: and ²⁵³² they brought ⁴³⁷⁴ unto him ⁸⁴⁶ all ³⁹⁵⁶ sick ²⁵⁶⁰ people ²¹⁹² that were taken with ⁴⁹¹² divers ⁴¹⁶⁴ diseases ³⁵⁵⁴ and ²⁵³² torments⁹³¹, and ²⁵³² those which were possessed with devils ¹¹³⁹ , and ²⁵³² those which were lunatick ⁴⁵⁸³ , and ²⁵³² those that had the palsy ³⁸⁸⁵; and ²⁵³² he healed ²³²³ them ⁸⁴⁶.

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