G5097–τιμωρέω–timōreō

as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem,

τιμωρηθῶσιν. timōrēthōsin “they may be punished.”

In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns.

τιμωρῶν timōrōn “punishing”