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Strong's #930 - βασανιστής

Transliteration
basanistḗs
Phonetics
bas-an-is-tace'
Origin
from (G928)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TDNT
1:561,96
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack
    1. an inquisitor, torturer also used of a jailer doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

βασανιστηìς

From G928

Thayer's Expanded Definition

βασανιστής, βασανιστου, (βασανίζω), one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack, an inquisitor, torturer, ((Antiphon, others); Demosthenes, p. 978, 11; Philo in Flacc. § 11 end; (de concupisc. § 1; quod omn. prob. book 16; Plutarch, an vitios. ad infel. suff. § 2)); used in Matthew 18:34 of a jailer (δεσμοφύλαξ Acts 16:23), doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him.


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

* βασανιστής , -οῦ ,

(< βασανίζω ), prop.,

a torturer; used of a gaoler, Matthew 18:34.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
List of Word Forms
βασανισταις βασανισταίς βασανισταῖς basanistais basanistaîs
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