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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G931
a touch-stone, i.e. (by analogy) torture
KJV usage: :--torment.
Etymology: perhaps remotely from the same as (through the notion of going to the bottom);
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
pr. lapis Lydius, a species of stone from Lydia, which being applied to metals was thought to indicate any alloy which might be mixed with them, and therefore used in the trial of metals; hence, examination of a person, especially by torture; in NT torture, torment, severe pain, Mt. 4:24; Lk. 16:23, 28*