Torment
βασανισμόςStrong’s G0929basanismos
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Basanismos is the Greek word usually translated “torment”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.”
Meaning
Usually translated “torment”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- torment 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 14:11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
- Revelation 18:7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
- Revelation 18:10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
- Revelation 18:15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
Greek dictionary
βασανισμός basanismos · torment
βασανισμός, -οῦ, ὁ (βασανίζω), [in LXX: 4Ma.9:6 11:2 * ;] torture, torment: Rev.9:5 14:11 18:7, 10, 15.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “torment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOR'MENT, noun
[Latin tormentum.; torqueo, torno; Eng. tour; that is, from twisting, straining.]
- Extreme pain; anguish; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.“Lest they also come into this place of torment 14” Luke 16:28
- That which gives pain, vexation or misery.“They brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments” Matthew 4:24
- An engine for casting stones.
All definitions and other forms of “torment”
TORMENT', verb transitive
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating pain and misery, either of body or mind.
- “Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?” Matthew 8:29“He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone” Revelation 14:10
- To pain; to distress.“Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented” Matthew 8:6
- To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
- To put into great agitation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.