The corpus record

βᾰσᾰν-ιστήριον

basanisterion · τό

question-chamber

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 5 · 6.48/10k

What it meant — LSJ

question-chamber

question-chamber, Theopomp.Com. 63, Polyaen. 8.62, Phalar. Ep. 82, 115; of the stocks, Sm. Je. 20.2.

II instruments of torture

in pl., instruments of torture, Plu. Par.min. 2.315d, Charito 4.2, Them. Or. 13.175c.

III touchstone, test

touchstone, test, χρυσοῦ, πορφύρας ib. 21.247b: metaph., ib. 248a.

In the wild

βασανιστήρια · basanistēria Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 6
βασανιστήρια · basanistēria Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
βασανιστηρίων · basanistēriōn Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
βασανιστήρια · basanistēria Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
βασανιστήρια · basanistēria Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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