Strong's #931: basanos (pronounced bas'-an-os)

perhaps remotely from the same as 939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture:--torment.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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basanos

1) a 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) the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth

3) torture, torment, acute pains

3a) of the pains of a disease

3b) of those in hell after death

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (through the notion of going to the bottom)

Citing in TDNT: 1:561, 96

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Matthew 4:24: "that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and"
Luke 16:23: "eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off,"
Luke 16:28: "into this place of torment."