'Tortured' in the Bible

But if they do not have [sufficient] self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured [to death], refusing to accept release [offered on the condition of denying their faith], so that they would be resurrected to a better life;

(for that just man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by what he saw and heard of their lawless acts),