King James Bible Dictionary

(1 Kings 12:11). Variously administered. In no case were the stripes to exceed forty (Deuteronomy 25:3; comp. 2 Corinthians 11:24). In the time of the apostles, in consequence of the passing of what was called the Porcian law, no Roman citizen could be scourged in any case (Acts 16:22-37). (See BASTINADO.) In the scourging of our Lord (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15) the words of prophecy (Isaiah 53:5) were fulfilled.

Corporal punishment by stripes.

Prescribed in the Mosaic law:

For fornication
Leviticus 19:20; Deuteronomy 22:18

For other offenses
Deuteronomy 25:2

Forty stripes the maximum limit
Deuteronomy 25:3

Fatal
Job 9:23

Of servants avenged
Exodus 21:20

Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of the Christians
Matthew 10:17

Of children
Children, Correction of; Punishment

Instances of:

Jesus
Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1

Paul and Silas
Acts 16:23

Paul
Acts 21:32; Acts 22:24; 2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Sosthenes
Acts 18:17

Figurative:

Figurative:
1 Kings 12:11

Of the evil tongue
Job 5:21
Assault and Battery

The punishment of scourging was common among the Jews. The instrument of punishment in ancient Egypt, as it is also in modern times generally in the East, was usually the stick, applied to the soles of the feet

bastinado. Under the Roman method the culprit was stripped, stretched with cords or thongs on a frame and beaten with rods. (Another form of the scourge consisted of a handle with three lashes or thongs of leather or cord, sometimes with pieces of metal fastened to them. Roman citizens were exempt by their law from scourging.)

SCOURG'ING, participle present tense Whipping; lashing with severity; punishing or afflicting severely.