Strong's Number G5178

Transliteration:

tumpanizo{toom-pan-id'-zo}

Word Origin:

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")