- βάσανος
- βάσανος, ου, ἡ (Theognis, Pind.+, orig. ‘touchstone, test’, then of procedures or ‘torment’ used to extract a confession; ins, pap, LXX, En; TestSol 1:3; Philo; Jos., Ant. 12, 255; 13, 241; Just.)① severe pain occasioned by punitive torture, torture, torment (Herodas 2, 88 and Diod. S, 15, 58, 2 of torture ordered by a court to extort a confession; SIG 780, 12; PLille 29 I, 22; LXX, esp. oft. 4 Macc; Philo, De Jos. 86; Jos., Bell. 1, 635; Ant. 16, 245) MPol 2:3, 4; Ox 840, 7. Of the tortures in the nether world (cp. Wsd 3:1; 4 Macc 13:15) and as synon. of ‘unquenchable fire’ 2 Cl 17:7b; ὑπάρχειν ἐν β. be in torment Lk 16:23. Descriptive of place in the nether world τόπος τῆς β. place of torment vs. 28. Cp. 2 Cl 10:4.—Of persecutions of Christians 1 Cl 6:1; 2 Cl 17:7a.—Cp. Hv 3, 7, 6; Hs 6, 3, 4; 6, 4, 3f; 6, 5, 1; 3; 7.② gener. severe pain caused by someth. oppressive, severe pain, torment (w. νόσοι; cp. Sext. Emp., Eth. 153 [Adv. Math. 11, 153]; 1 Macc 9:56; Philo, Abr. 96) Mt 4:24.—Papias (3:3).—PduBois, Torture and Truth 1991. B. 1115. DELG. M-M. TW.
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