βέβηλος
bébēlos · G952 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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worldly, godless
Pertaining to being profane in the sense of worldly or godless
Examples1 Timothy 1:9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and worldly, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
2 Timothy 2:16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,
Hebrews 12:16 that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
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In the other Testament 1 word
- חֹל chôl · H2455 · common, profane
- חֹל (chôl, H2455) and βέβηλος (bébēlos, G952) both denote the profane or common as contrasted with the holy/sacred, representing a direct Hebrew-to-Greek equivalence for this fundamental cultic category distinction in biblical law and purity discourse.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Worldly, godless88.115
- Used of a life or speech given over to what is common and irreligious, as of the worldly and empty chatter to be avoided in 1 Timothy 6:20 and 2 Timothy 2:16 and the worldly, unspiritual life of Esau in Hebrews 12:16.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βεβηλον (ΒΑΩ, βαίνω, βηλός threshold); 1. accessible, lawful to be trodden; properly,…
1. accessible, lawful to be trodden; properly, used of places; hence,
2. profane, equivalent to חֹל (i. e. unhallowed, common), Lev 10:10; 1 Sam 21:4; opposed to ἅγιος (as in (Ezek 22:26); Philo, vit. Moys. iii., § 18): 1 Tim 4:7; 1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 2:16; of men, profane i. e. ungodly: 1 Tim 1:9; Heb 12:16. (Often in Greek writings from Aeschylus down.) (Cf. Trench, § 101.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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