Punish
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
primarily denotes "to curtail, prune, dock" (from kolos, "docked"); then, "to check, restrain, punish;" it is used in the Middle Voice in Acts 4:21; Passive Voice in 2—Peter 2:9 , AV, "to be punished" (RV, "under punishment," lit., "being punished"), a futurative present tense.
primarily, "to help," then, "to avenge" (from time, "value, honor," and ouros, "a guardian"), i.e., "to help" by redressing injuries, is used in the Active Voice in Acts 26:11 , RV, "punishing" (Av, "I punished"); Passive Voice in Acts 22:5 , lit., "(that) they may be punished." Cp. No. 5, below.
2—Thessalonians 1:9Justice.Suffer
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.
(2): ( v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
(3): ( v. t.) To deal with roughly or harshly; - chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
(4): ( v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.
King James Dictionary [3]
Pun'Ish, L punio, from the root of poena,pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.
1. To pain to afflict with pain, loss or calamity for a crime or fault primarily, to afflict with bodily pain, as to punish a thief with pillory or stripes but the word is applied also to affliction by loss of property, by transportation, banishment, seclusion from society, &c. The laws require murderers to be punished with death. Other offenders are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, hard labor,&c. God punishes men for their sins with calamities personal and national. 2. To chastise as, a father punishes his child for disobedience. 3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender applied to the crime as, to punish murder or theft.
