βλαβερός
blaberós · G983 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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harmful
Pertaining to that which causes harm
Examples1 Timothy 6:9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- κακός kakós · G2556 · bad, evil, harmful
- Greek adjective for bad/harmful things with a broader ethical and qualitative range; overlaps with βλαβερός specifically in the sense of causing harm or being injurious, though κακός also carries strong moral and intrinsic-quality dimensions that βλαβερός (purely functional harmfulness) does not
Contrasting words 2 words
- ὠφέλιμος ōphélimos · G5624 · advantage, benefit, beneficial
- Greek adjective meaning beneficial or profitable; lexical opposite of injurious in the sense of helpful vs. harmful
- ἀγαθός agathós · G18 · good, goodness, good act
- Greek adjective for good/beneficial things; broad antonym to harmful in the sense of good vs. bad effects
In the other Testament 1 word
- רַע raʻ · H7451 · bad, evil, wicked
- Hebrew adjective for harmful/injurious things; standard translation equivalent for the semantic field of causing harm or injury
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Harmful20.13
- Used of desires that lead to ruin, as of the many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into destruction in 1 Timothy 6:9.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βλαβερα, βλαβερόν (βλάπτω), hurtful, injurious (Xenophon, mem. 1, 5, 3 opposed to…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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