Tympanizo means “torture” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5178 — nechosheth (“copper”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5178 τυμπανίζω (tumpanizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tumpanizo (toom-pan-id'-zo) v. 1. to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death [from a derivative of G5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum")] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include upon, doors, changed, appearance, and before. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
tumpanizo (toom-pan-id'-zo) v. 1. to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death [from a derivative of G5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum")] KJV: torture Root(s): G5180
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5178. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to torture
Usage: τυμπανίζω (τύμπανον, a kettle-drum), [in LXX: 1Ki.21:13 (14) (17 pi?) * ;] __1. to beat a drum. __2. to torture by beating, beat to death (cf. Westc. on He, l.with): pass., Heb.11:35.† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5178 (τυμπανίζω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5178.
And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5178, grouped by book.
Tympanizo (Strong's G5178) is a Greek word most simply glossed "torture". tumpanizo (toom-pan-id'-zo) v. 1. to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death [from a derivative of G5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum")]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's G5178 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5178 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as upon, doors, changed, appearance, before, and feigned. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G5178, with linked reader references where each row is available.