To torture
τυμπανίζωStrong’s G5178tumpanizō
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Tumpanizō is the Greek word usually translated “were tortured”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:”
Meaning
Usually translated “were tortured”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- were tortured 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
τυμπανίζω tumpanizō · to torture
τυμπανίζω (τύμπανον, a kettle-drum), [in LXX: 1Ki.21:13 (14) (17 pi?) * ;] 1. to beat a drum. 2. to torture by beating, beat to death (cf. Westc. on He, l.with): pass., Heb.11:35.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “torture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TORT'URE, noun
[Latin tortus, torqueo, to twist.]
- Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment.
- Severe pain inflicted judicially, either as a punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person. torture may be and is inflicted in a variety of ways, as by water or fire, or by the boot or thumbkin.
All definitions and other forms of “torture”
TORT'URE, verb transitive
To pain to extremity; to torment.
- To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
- To vex; to harass.
- To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Not in use.]
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.