Original Word: τυμπανίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tumpanizó
Phonetic Spelling: (toom-pan-id'-zo)
Short Definition: I torture, break on the wheel
Definition: I torture, break on the wheel, beat to death.

5178 tympanízō (the root of the English term "tympani-drum") – properly, to torture. 5178 (tympanízō) originally meant "to beat a drum" and was later used for torturing someone in conjunction with the beating of a drum – hence the expression, "beating to death" (cf. B. F. Westcott at Heb 11:35).

STRONGS NT 5178: τυμπανίζω

τυμπανίζω: (τύμπανον);

1. to beat the drum or timbrel.

2. to torture with the tympanum, an instrument of punishment: ἐτυμπανίσθησαν (Vulg.distenti sunt), Hebrews 11:35 (R. V. were tortured (with margin, Or, beaten to death)) (Plutarch, mor., p. 60 a.; joined with ἀνασκολοπίζεσθαι, Lucian, Jup. trag. 19); 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 'to break upon the wheel'; see English Dicts. under the word ); cf. (Bleek on Heb. as above); Grimm on 2 Macc. 6:19f

STRONGS NT 5178a: τυπικῶςτυπικῶς (from the adjective τυπικος, and this from τύπος); adverb, by way of example (prefiguratively): ταῦτα τυπικῶς συνέβαινον ἐκείνοις, these things happened unto them as a warning to posterity (R. V. by way of example), 1 Corinthians 10:11 L T Tr WH. (Ecclesiastical writings.)

torture.

From a derivative of tupto (meaning a drum, "tympanum"); to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death -- torture.

see GREEK tupto

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