Basanizo describes inflicting torment or suffering, including punishment and distress under hostile conditions.

The dominant use depicts torment inflicted on people, whether pleaded against, suffered as a future punishment, or attributed to the prophets’ effect on earth-dwellers. A smaller cluster describes severe distress or suffering in adverse circumstances: a paralyzed child, a boat opposed by wind and waves, labor pains, and a righteous soul amid lawless deeds.

1. Inflicted torment or punitive suffering · dominant

   Active forms occur in appeals not to be subjected to torment in Luke 8:28, Mark 5:7, and Matthew 8:29, while Revelation 11:10 attributes such affliction to the two prophets. Future passive forms in Revelation 9:5, Revelation 14:10, and Revelation 20:10 place the subjects under an announced torment; in Revelation 9:5 the APB renders the contrast as not being killed but being “tormented five months.”

   Luke 8:28Mark 5:7Matthew 8:29Revelation 11:10Revelation 9:5Revelation 14:10
2. Severe distress under adverse conditions · common

   Present passive participles describe those undergoing hardship: the child in Matthew 8:6, the boat in Matthew 14:24, those rowing against the wind in Mark 6:48, and the woman giving birth in Revelation 12:2. In 2 Peter 2:8, the imperfect active form describes the righteous man’s soul as continually affected by lawless works; the APB renders the clause “he was tormenting his righteous soul.”

   Matthew 8:6Matthew 14:24Mark 6:48Revelation 12:22 Peter 2:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the relevant clauses with “torment,” “tormented,” and “tortured” in affliction and punishment contexts, but uses “suffering terribly,” “being tossed,” “struggling,” and labor distress in other settings. These are presentations of whole clauses rather than fixed English equivalents.