Strong's #929: basanismos (pronounced bas-an-is-mos')

from 928; torture:--torment.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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basanismos

1) 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

2) torment, torture

2a) the act of tormenting

2b) the state or condition of those tormented

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G928

Citing in TDNT: 1:561, 96

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Revelation 9:5: "months: and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh"
Revelation 9:5: "and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man."
Revelation 14:11: "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever:"
Revelation 18:7: "and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her:"
Revelation 18:10: "for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas"
Revelation 18:15: "for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,"