ΒΑΣΑΝΟΣ, βασανος
BASANOS, basanos
Sounds Like: bah-SAH-noss
Translations: torment, a torment, torture, a torture, pain, a pain, distress, a distress, test, a test, touchstone, a touchstone
From the root: ΒΑΣΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a test or examination, often implying a severe one, like a touchstone used to test the purity of metals. It can also denote the pain or torment resulting from such a test, or from punishment. It is used to describe intense suffering, distress, or torture.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0931 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Wisdom — 3:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 11:388
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 6 — 5:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΣΑΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΑΣΑΝΟΝ — torment, torture, pain, distress, a torment, a torture
- ΑΣΑΝΟΣ — torment, torture, pain, distress, a torment, a torture
- ΒΑΣΑΝʼ — torment, torture, pain, test, touchstone, a test, a torment
- ΒΑΣΑΝΕΙΤΙΣ — tormentor, female tormentor, torturer, female torturer
- ΒΑΣΑΝΗΝ — torment, torture, pain, distress, a torment, a torture, a pain, a distress
- ΒΑΣΑΝΙ — (to) torment, (to) torture, (to) suffering, (to) pain, (to) distress, (to) anguish, (to) test, (to) examination, (to) touchstone
- ΒΑΣΑΝΙΣ — torment, torture, vex, distress, examine, test, try
- ΒΑΣΑΝΙΤΕΙΔΙ — (to) a small touchstone, (to) a small test, (to) a small torture
- ΒΑΣΑΝΙΤΙΔΙ — to touchstone, to touchstone-like, to testing, to testing-like, to tormenting, to tormenting-like
- ΒΑΣΑΝΙΤΙΣ — Basanitis, of Basan, of Bashan
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΙ — torments, tortures, pains, trials, tests, examinations
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΙΣ — torments, tortures, pains, tests, trials
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΝ — torture, torment, test, a test, a torment, a torture
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΝΗ — torture, torment, a torment, pain, a pain, test, a test, touchstone, a touchstone
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΥ — of torture, of torment, of a test, of a touchstone
- ΒΑΣΑΝΟΥΣ — torments, tortures, pains, trials, tests
- ΒΑΣΑΝΩ — torment, torture, test, examination, touchstone, (to) torment, (to) torture, (to) test, (to) examine
- ΒΑΣΑΝΩΝ — of torment, of torture, of trial, of examination, of the touchstone
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