βάσανος básanos

Meaning

a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture

In the King James Version: torment

Derivation: perhaps remotely from the same as G939 (βάσις) (through the notion of going to the bottom);

Where it is used

• Matthew 4:24 News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them.
• Luke 16:23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• Luke 16:28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’