Word: tumpanizw

Pronounce: toom-pan-id'-zo

Strongs Number: G5178

Orig: from a derivative of 5180 (meaning a drum, "tympanum"); to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death:--torture. G5180

Use: Verb

Heb Strong: H8427

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")