Strong's G931 βάσανος (basanos)

And they said, If ye send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, do not on any account send it away empty, but by all means render to it an offering for the plague; and then shall ye be healed, and an atonement shall be made for you: should not his hand be thus stayed from off you?

And they say, What is the offering for the plague which we shall return to it? and they said,

And ye shall take the ark and put it on the wagon; and ye shall restore to it the golden articles for the trespass offering in a coffer by the side of it: and ye shall let it go, and send it away, and ye shall depart.

And these are the golden emerods which the lords of the Philistines gave as a trespass offering to the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one.

And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because thou didst not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities.

Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.

Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast made them appear more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed, and bear thy dishonor, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

that thou mayest bear thy punishment, and be dishonored for all that thou hast done in provoking me to anger.

There is Elam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,

There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assyria, who go down slain to Hades: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

So Alcimus died at that time with great torment.

But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.

But the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, smote him with an incurable and invisible plague: for as soon as he had spoken these words, a pain of the bowels that was remediless came upon him, and sore torments of the inner parts;

Whoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or suckling, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.

When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures everyone of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to abjure the Jewish religion.

I would counsel thee, old man, before thy tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

Thou knowest, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.

Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,

O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.

Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.

And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though thou hadst learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.

But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.

But thou, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shalt, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures—

For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.

But thou, for thy impiety and bloodshedding, shalt endure indissoluble torments.

Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.

And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,

But this is worthy of honors, not of torments;

I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.

Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving thee for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to thee for all time.

for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.

But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.

so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.

And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.

And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

Thy firstborn, expiring, turned thee not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul.

Nor when thou didst behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, didst thou weep!

When thou didst see children’s flesh heaped upon children’s flesh that had been torn off, hands upon hands cut off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, thou lamentedst not.

Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!

With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!

so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of thy children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.

If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.

I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.

For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures.

For thou, as a house bravely built upon the pillar of thy children, didst bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.

And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.

These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.

For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.

O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult, and to all his torments!

He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.

Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, That we may know his meekness, And prove his patience.

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, And there shall no torment touch them.

For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succors which reason offereth.

For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, And made them forget the things that had already happened, That they might fulfill the punishment which was wanting to their torments:

for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and

lifetime. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits. There

Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad, And into the holy place shall they enter; And its fragrance shall be in their bones, And they shall live a long life on earth, Such as thy fathers lived: And in their days shall no sorrow or plague Or torment or calamity touch them.'