Verb basanizō (to torment, to torture) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Matthew

8: 6and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, being tormented (basanizō) terribly."
8: 29Suddenly they shouted, "What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment (basanizō) us before the time?"
14: 24but by this time the boat, tormented (basanizō) by the waves, was far from the land, for the wind was against them.

Mark

5: 7and he shouted at the top of his voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment (basanizō) me."
6: 48When he saw that they were tormented (basanizō) at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by.

Luke

8: 28When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment (basanizō) me"

2 Peter

2: 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented (basanizō) in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

Revelation

9: 5They were allowed to torture (basanizō) them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone.
11: 10and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been tormenting (basanizō) them.
12: 2She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, being tormented (basanizō) in giving birth.
14: 10they will also drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented (basanizō) with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
20: 10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented (basanizō) day and night forever and ever.

1 Samuel (LXX: 1 King)

5: 3And the people of Azotus rose early, and entered into the house of Dagon; and looked, and behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the Lord: and they lifted up Dagon, and set him in his place. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he tormented (basanizō) them, and he smote them in their secret parts, Azotus and her coasts.

Sirach (LXX)

4: 17For at the first she (wisdom) will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment (basanizō) him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.

Wisdom (LXX)

11: 9For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented (basanizō), thirsting in another manner than the just.
12: 23Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented (basanizō) them with their own abominations.
16: 1Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented (basanizō).
16: 4For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented (basanizō).

2 Maccabees (LXX)

1: 28Torment (basanizō) them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong.
7: 13Now when this man was dead also, they tormented (basanizō) and mangled the fourth in like manner.
7: 17but abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will torment (basanizō) thee and thy seed.
9: 6and that most justly: for he had tormented (basanizō) other men's bowels with many and strange torments.

4 Maccabees (LXX; See the presentation)

6: 5But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured (basanizō) in a dream, regarded it not at all.
6: 10and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished those torturing (basanizō) him.
6: 11His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired for his courage by those torturing (basanizō) him.
8: 2for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing, then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment (basanizō) them more grievously.
8: 27But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured (basanizō).
9: 7Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing (basanizō) us.
9: 27And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured (basanizō), they heard his noble sentiment,
9: 30Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured (basanizō) more than I, finding thy overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?
9: 32But thou art tortured (basanizō) with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.
11: 16So that if thou think proper to torment (basanizō) us for not eating the unclean, then torment (basanizō)!
11: 20And he, while tormented (basanizō), said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
12: 4and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented (basanizō), will yourself perish prematurely.
12: 13Wert thou not ashamed, man as thou art, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture (basanizō) them?
13: 27And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love, those who were left endured to behold their brethren, who were ill-used for their religion, tortured (basanizō) even unto death.
15: 22By what numerous and great tortures was tortured (basanizō) the mother of the sons tortured (basanizō) on the wheel and by fire!
16: 3And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fire, as that natural love of children burned within her, when she beheld her seven sons tortured (basanizō).
16: 15For when thou wast seized along with thy children, thou stoodest looking upon Eleazar being tortured (basanizō), and saidst to thy sons in the Hebrew tongue,