Words the Bible translates as scourge
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mastigoōμαστιγόωto flog: to beat someone with a whip as a punishment ordered by someone in authority
- shotשׁוֹטa whip: the flexible lash swung to drive an animal or beat a person, and a stroke of trouble pictured as falling the same way
- shotetשֹׁטֵטscourgenot studied yet
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