Strong's G931
βάσανος(básanos)
- Language:
- Greek (New Testament)
Definition
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
Derivation
perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (βάσις) (through the notion of going to the bottom);
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, βάσανος is translated as: torment.
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.