from a derivative of 5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum")
Source:
Kind:
v
In AV:
torture 1
Count:
1
Definition:
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")