| Strong#: | 5178 // tumpanizw tumpanizo |
| Orig: | v // from a derivative of \\5180\\ (meaning a drum, "tympanum") |
| NASB: | ==>tortured(1). |
| AV=1 | ==>torture 1 |
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| Definition: | 1) to beat the drum or timbrel
2) to torture with the tympanum, an instrument of punishment
The tympanum seems to have been a wheel shaped instrument of torture,
over which criminals were stretched as though they were skins and then
horribly beaten with clubs or thongs (cf our "break upon the wheel")
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| NASB: | to beat a drum, to torture by beating: |
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