from a derivative of 5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum")
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
torture 1
Total: 1
Definition:
to beat the drum or timbrel
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")