STRONGS G5178:
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
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