5178 tumpanizo {toom-pan-id'-zo}
from a derivative of 5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum");; v
AV - torture 1; 1
1) to beat the drum or timbrel
2) to torture with the tympanum, an instrument of punishment
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 "break upon the wheel")
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