What does βασανιστής (basanistḗs) mean in the Bible?
βασανιστής (basanistḗs): One who inflicts pain through torture or imprisonment; in Matthew, a jailer enforcing debt punishment.
Greek · G930
βασανιστής
A torturer
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βασανιστήςG930
Pronunciationbasanistḗs
What does βασανιστής (basanistḗs) mean in the Bible?
βασανιστής (basanistḗs): One who inflicts pain through torture or imprisonment; in Matthew, a jailer enforcing debt punishment.
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How does the BSB render G930?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include jailers to be tortured (1).
Where does βασανιστής (basanistḗs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 18:34. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itjailers to be tortured1×Matthew 18:34
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Usage map
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First aligned rowMatthew 18:34
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Matthew1
Source forms
βασανισταῖς1xbasanistaisMatthew 18:34
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural1xMatthew 18:34
Evidence Summary
Greek word. One who inflicts pain through torture or imprisonment; in Matthew, a jailer enforcing debt punishment.
Strong'sG930
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a torturer
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
One who inflicts pain through torture or imprisonment; in Matthew, a jailer enforcing debt punishment.
prop., a torturer; used of a gaoler, Mat.18:34.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 18:34Noun Dative Plural Masculine
βασανισταῖς,basanistaiv
one who tortures, a tormentor, jailor
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternDative (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Dative · Plural · MasculineMatt 18:341×
Word Origins
βασανιστής is built from this root: