Strong's Greek · G5097
τιμωρέω
timōréō
punish
Definition
properly, to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty)
Derivation
from a comparative of G5092 (τιμή) and ouros (a guard);
Appears 2 times in Scripture
“as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.”
“I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).