Strong’s G931 · Greek
βάσανος
básanos · bas'-an-os
Origin perhaps remotely from the same as βάσις (G939) (through the notion of going to the bottom);
Meaning a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
In the King James Version torment.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 4:24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Luke 16:23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
- Luke 16:28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.