mastix denotes punitive flogging and, in healing contexts, a bodily affliction from which people are healed.

The attested usage most often concerns bodily affliction in accounts of healing: plural and singular forms occur with diseases, illnesses, and recovery. A smaller group refers to flogging used in interrogation or suffered alongside mocking, chains, and imprisonment.

1. Bodily affliction in healing · dominant

   In Mark 3:10, the accusative plural occurs among those who pressed forward to touch the healer, and the APB renders the verse with people who had “diseases.” In Luke 7:21 the genitive plural stands in a list with illnesses and evil spirits, while Mark 5:29 and Mark 5:34 use the genitive singular for the condition from which the woman is healed; the APB calls it “affliction.”

   Luke 7:21Mark 3:10Mark 5:29Mark 5:34
2. Flogging as inflicted punishment · common

   In Acts 22:24, the dative plural occurs in the officer's order that a man be questioned by this means; the APB renders the clause “questioned with whips.” In Hebrews 11:36, the genitive plural is named among sufferings with mocking, chains, and imprisonment, and the APB renders it “flogging.”

   Acts 22:24Hebrews 11:36

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “whips” and “flogging” in Acts 22:24 and Hebrews 11:36, but with “affliction” in Mark 5:29 and Mark 5:34; Mark 3:10 uses “diseases.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings show the verse contexts rather than fixed English equivalents.