931
From Textus Receptus
931 βάσανος basanos bas’-an-os
perhaps remotely from the same as 939 (through the notion of going to the bottom); Noun, Masculine.
AV-torment 3; 3
- 1) a touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the colour of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal
- 2) the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth
- 3) torture, torment, acute pains
- 3a) of the pains of a disease
- 3b) of those in hell after death
