βασανίζω

Matthew 8:6 βασανιζόμενος. being tormented.

“Lord, my servant lies at home, paralyzed and in terrible agony.”

Here: Present passive participle: 'being tormented', still going on as the officer speaks. It is a strong word, used elsewhere for torture and for demonic torment (8:29). This was acute agony, and Luke adds that he was near death (7:2).

Matthew 8:29 βασανίσαι to torment

“What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”

Here: The purpose they fear: to put them under the punishing torment reserved for condemned spirits. The word comes from the testing and torture of the law courts, and it was used for end-time punishment.

Matthew 14:24 βασανιζόμενον being tossed

but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.

Here: "Being tormented". It is a present participle (a continuing action) in the passive, so the boat is being battered over and over. The verb is a strong one, normally used for torture or severe suffering. Here it pictures the waves pounding the hull without a break.

Mark 5:7 βασανίσῃς. may torment.

And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”

Here: "Do not torment me": the verb for judicial torture and for the punishment of evil powers at the end. The spirit fears that Jesus' arrival means its sentence is being carried out.

Mark 6:48 βασανιζομένους straining

He could see that the disciples were straining to row, because the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea. He intended to pass by them,

Luke 8:28 βασανίσῃς. You may torment!

When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”

Here: 'Torment'. In Jewish thinking of the time this was the punishment waiting for evil spirits at God's judgment. The plea is not to have that sentence carried out now (compare 'the Abyss' in verse 31).

2 Peter 2:8 ἐβασάνιζεν· was tormented;

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

Revelation 9:5 βασανισθήσονται they will torment [them]

The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

Here: Passive future: 'they shall be tormented.' The subject changes here to the people who suffer. The future tense gives a note of certainty: this will happen.

Revelation 11:10 ἐβασάνισαν tormented

And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

Here: 'Tormented.' The tense sums up the whole 1,260-day ministry as one finished act. It refers to the drought, the water turned to blood, the plagues (v. 6), and to their unwelcome preaching in sackcloth.

Revelation 12:2 βασανιζομένη being in pain

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Revelation 14:10 βασανισθήσεται he will be tormented

he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

Here: Future passive, 'he will be tormented'. The word means severe, painful distress, the kind of suffering that torture inflicts.

Revelation 20:10 βασανισθήσονται they will be tormented

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Here: A future passive plural: “they,” meaning the devil, the beast and the false prophet together, will undergo torment. The tense moves from the vision’s past (“was thrown”) to a lasting future condition.