Strong's Number 929
Transliteration:
basanismos
{bas-an-is-mos'}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
1:561,96
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
torment 6
Total: 6
Definition:
- to torture, a testing by the touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the colour of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal
- torment, torture
- the act of tormenting
- the state or condition of those tormented