Strong's #930: basanistes (pronounced bas-an-is-tace')

from 928; a torturer:--tormentor.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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basanistēs

1) one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack

1a) an inquisitor, torturer also used of a jailer doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G928

Citing in TDNT: 1:561, 96

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Matthew 18:34: "and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all"