The punishment of beating with sticks. It is also called _tympanum_, [a drum,] because the patient was beaten like a drum. This unified study connects 2 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Beating, a mode of punishment common in the East. It is referred to by "the rod of correction" (Prov. 22:15), "scourging" (Lev. 19:20), "chastising" (Deut. 22:18). The number of blows could not exceed forty (Deut. 25:2, 3).
the punishment of beating with sticks. It is also called _tympanum_, [a drum,] because the patient was beaten like a drum. Upwards of a hundred blows were often inflicted, and sometimes the beating was unto death.