From G5097; {vindication} that {is} (by implication) a penalty: - punishment.
Verse
Matrix
Act 22:5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punishedG5097.
Act 26:11And I punishedG5097 them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.