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Lexicon :: Strong's G931 - basanos

Aa
βάσανος
Transliteration
basanos (Key)
Pronunciation
bas'-an-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps remotely from the same as βάσις (G939) (through the notion of going to the bottom)
mGNT
3x in 2 unique form(s) TR
3x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
11x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:561,96

Strong’s Definitions

βάσανος básanos, bas'-an-os; perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture:—torment.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G931 in the following manner: torment (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G931 in the following manner: torment (3x).

  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

    1. of the pains of a disease

    2. of those in hell after death

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βάσανος básanos, bas'-an-os; perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture:—torment.
STRONGS G931:
βάσανος, -ου, ἡ, [Curtius, p. 439];
a. the touchstone [called also basanite, Latin lapis Lydius], by which gold and other metals are tested.
b. the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth.
c. torture, torment, acute pains: used of the pains of disease, Matthew 4:24; of the torments of the wicked after death, ἐν βασάνοις ὑπάρχειν, Luke 16:23 (Wis. 3:1; 4 Macc. 13:14); hence, ὁ τόπος τῆς βασάνου is used of Gehenna, Luke 16:28. (In Greek writings from [Theognis], Pindar down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:24
Luke
16:23; 16:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G931 matches the Greek βάσανος (basanos),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:8 - and take the ark of Jehovah, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:17 - And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering unto Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:18 - Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou hast given judgment for thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:54

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:54 - that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
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