Definition

to torture

Etymology

from G931 (βάσανος);

Word family

• βάσανος básanos

How the KJV renders it

• pain
• toil
• torment
• toss
• vex

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.