Lexicon basanistés: a torturer Original Word: βασανιστής, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: basanistés Phonetic Spelling: (bas-an-is-tace') Short Definition: one who tortures, a tormentor, jailor Definition: one who tortures, a tormentor, jailor. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 930 basanistḗs (from 928 /basanízō) – a guard in a prison "whose function was to torture prisoners as a phase of judicial examination – prison guard, torturer" (L & N, 1, 37.126). See 928 (basanizō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom basanizóDefinitiona torturer NASB Translationtorturers (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 930: βασανιστήςβασανιστής, βασανιστου, ὁ ( βασανίζω), one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack, an inquisitor, torturer, (( Antiphon, others); Demosthenes, p. 978, 11; Philo in Flacc. § 11 end; (de concupisc. § 1; quod omn. prob. book 16; Plutarch, an vitios. ad infel. suff. § 2)); used in Matthew 18:34 of a jailer ( δεσμοφύλαξ Acts 16:23), doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him.
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