Know the Word.

Greek word

básanos

βάσανος

What it means

a touch-stone, i.e. torture

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

Where it comes from

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

How the King James translates it

  • torments2

Every place it appears 2

Matthew4:24
Luke16:23