Bastinado
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
Beating, a mode of punishment common in the East. It is referred to by "the rod of correction" (Proverbs 22:15), "scourging" (Leviticus 19:20), "chastising" (Deuteronomy 22:18). The number of blows could not exceed forty (Deuteronomy 25:2, 3).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.

2. (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

3. (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Greek
4463. rhabdizo -- to beat with a rod
... beat with rods. From rhabdos; to strike with a stick, ie Bastinado -- beat
(with rods). see GREEK rhabdos. (erabdisthen) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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5180. tupto -- to strike, smite, beat
... A primary verb (in a strengthened form); to "thump", ie Cudgel or pummel (properly,
with a stick or bastinado), but in any case by repeated blows; thus ...
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Library

History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 2
... The country people -- The villages; serfs, free peasantry -- Rural domains; the
survey, taxes; the bastinado, the corvee -- Administration of justice, the ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 2/title page.htm

Back to Memphis
... Therefore, the convicts whose misdeeds were too serious to be punished adequately
by the bastinado or the fine, and yet not grave enough to merit a sentence to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxiii back to memphis.htm

The Heir Intervenes
... fan-bearer came. Go on. Hath he put him to torture yet?". "Aye, from the
beginning, though not by the bastinado. He rends him with ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxvii the heir intervenes.htm

The Political Constitution of Egypt
... Any irregularity in the entries entailed the bastinado; peculators were punished
by imprisonment, mutilation, or death, according to the gravity of the offence ...
/.../chapter ithe political constitution of.htm

Thesaurus
Bastinado

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Bat (2 Occurrences)

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Basthai

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Scourging (5 Occurrences)
... (see BASTINADO.) In the scourging of our Lord (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15) the words
of prophecy (Isaiah 53:5) were fulfilled. Noah Webster's Dictionary. (p. pr. ...
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Resources
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