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Bastinado

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

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the punishment of beating with sticks. It is also called tympanum, [a drum,] because the patient was beaten like a drum. Upwards of a hundred blows were often inflicted, and sometimes the beating was unto death. St. Paul, Hebrews 11:25 , says that some of the saints were tortured, τυμπανιζω , suffered the tympanum, that is, were stretched on an instrument of torture, and beaten to death.

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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Bastinado'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​wtd/​b/bastinado.html. 1831-2.
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