τιμωρέω timōréō

Meaning

properly, to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty)

In the King James Version: punish

Derivation: from a comparative of G5092 (τιμή) and ouros (a guard);

Where it is used

• Acts 22:5 as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
• Acts 26:11 I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.