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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: 6 | and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, being tormented (basanizō) terribly." |
8: 29 | Suddenly they shouted, "What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment (basanizō) us before the time?" |
14: 24 | but by this time the boat, tormented (basanizō) by the waves, was far from the land, for the wind was against them. |
Mark
5: 7 | and 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: 48 | When 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: 28 | When 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: 5 | They 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: 10 | and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been tormenting (basanizō) them. |
12: 2 | She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, being tormented (basanizō) in giving birth. |
14: 10 | they 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: 10 | And 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: 3 | And 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: 17 | For 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: 9 | For 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: 23 | Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented (basanizō) them with their own abominations. |
16: 1 | Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented (basanizō). |
16: 4 | For 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: 28 | Torment (basanizō) them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong. |
7: 13 | Now when this man was dead also, they tormented (basanizō) and mangled the fourth in like manner. |
7: 17 | but abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will torment (basanizō) thee and thy seed. |
9: 6 | and that most justly: for he had tormented (basanizō) other men's bowels with many and strange torments. |
4 Maccabees (LXX; See the presentation)
6: 5 | But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured (basanizō) in a dream, regarded it not at all. |
6: 10 | and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished those torturing (basanizō) him. |
6: 11 | His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired for his courage by those torturing (basanizō) him. |
8: 2 | for 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: 27 | But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured (basanizō). |
9: 7 | Make 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: 27 | And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured (basanizō), they heard his noble sentiment, |
9: 30 | Thinkest 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: 32 | But thou art tortured (basanizō) with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath. |
11: 16 | So that if thou think proper to torment (basanizō) us for not eating the unclean, then torment (basanizō)! |
11: 20 | And 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: 4 | and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented (basanizō), will yourself perish prematurely. |
12: 13 | Wert 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: 27 | And 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: 22 | By what numerous and great tortures was tortured (basanizō) the mother of the sons tortured (basanizō) on the wheel and by fire! |
16: 3 | And 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: 15 | For 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, |
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