5097 - timóreó

Strong's Concordance

Original word: τιμωρέω
Transliteration: timóreó
Definition (short): punished
Definition (full): to punish, avenge

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: perhaps from timé and arnumai (to exact atonment)
Definition: to punish, avenge
NASB Translation: punished (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From a comparative of time and ouros (a guard); properly, to protect one's honor, i.e. To avenge (inflict a penalty) -- punish.

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KJV: As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
NASB: as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.
KJV: And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
NASB: "And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.