Strong's Number 930
Transliteration:
basanistes
{bas-an-is-tace'}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
1:561,96
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
tormentor 1
Total: 1
Definition:
- one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack
- an inquisitor, torturer also used of a jailer doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him