Strong's G931

βάσανος

Transliteration

básanos

Definition

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

KJV usage

torment

Derivation

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

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Greek dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.