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βλασφημέω

blasphēméō · G987 · Greek · 35 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to revile, to defame, to blaspheme, reviling

    To speak against someone in such a way as to harm or injure his or her reputation (occurring in relation to persons as well as to divine beings)

    Examples

    Matthew 9:3 And some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

    Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? See, you have now heard the blasphemy;

    Matthew 27:39 And those passing by were speaking abusively to Him, shaking their heads,

How it’s used In 9 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

34 occurrences in 19 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

16 occurrences in 10 groups

To or for whomIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 9 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

6 occurrences in 3 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
To revile, to defame, to blaspheme, reviling33.400
Used of irreverent speech directed against God or claiming divine prerogative, as of the scribes' charge that Jesus is blaspheming for forgiving sins in Matthew 9:3 and Mark 2:7, and the high priest's declaration that Jesus has blasphemed in Matthew 26:65.
To defame, to slander, slander33.398
Used of speaking abusively against a person, as of those passing by the cross speaking abusively against Jesus in Matthew 27:39.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βλάπτω bláptō · G984 · to harm, to hurt, to injure · 2×βλασφημέωblasphēméō · G987βλασφημία blasphēmía · G988 · to revile, to defame, to blaspheme · 18×βλάσφημος blásphēmos · G989 · insulting, slanderous, blasphemous · 4×βλαβερός blaberós · G983 · harmful · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βλασφήμω; imperfect ἐβλασφήμουν; 1 aorist ἐβλασφήμησα; passive (present βλασφημοῦμαι); 1…
βλασφήμω; imperfect ἐβλασφήμουν; 1 aorist ἐβλασφήμησα; passive (present βλασφημοῦμαι); 1 future βλασφημηθήσομαι; (βλάσφημος, which see); to speak reproachfully, rail at, revile, calumniate (Vulg.blasphemo); absolutely: Lk 22:65; Acts 13:45; Acts 18:6; Acts 26:11; 1 Tim 1:20; 1 Pet 4:4; with accusative of person or thing (as in later Greek, Joseph, Plutarch, Appian, etc.): Mt 27:39; Mk 3:28 L T Tr WH; ; Lk 23:39; Tit 3:2; Jas 2:7; Jude 1:10; with the cognate noun βλασφημίαν, to utter blasphemy (Plato, legg. 7, p. 800 c.; see ἀγαπάω at the end), Mk 3:28 R G (where L T Tr WH ὅσα for ὅσας, see above); (followed by ἐν, 2 Pet 2:12; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) as at end, and see ἀγνοέω, a.). Passive βλασφημοῦμαι to be evil spoken of, reviled, railed at: Rom 3:8; Rom 14:16; 1 Cor 4:13 (T WH Tr marginal reading δυσφημούμενοι); 1 Cor 10:30; Tit 2:5; 2 Pet 2:2; τό ὄνομα τίνος, Rom 2:24; 1 Tim 6:1. Specifically, of those who by contemptuous speech intentionally come short of the reverence due to God or to sacred things (for גִּדֵּף, 2 Kgs 19:6, 2 Kgs 19:22 cf. 2 Kgs 19:4; cf. Grimm on 2 Macc. 10:34); absolutely: Mt 9:3; Mt 26:65; Mk 2:7 L T Tr WH; (Jn 10:36); τόν Θεόν, Rev 16:11, Rev 16:21; τήν θεάν, Acts 19:37 (G L T Tr WH τήν Θεόν); τό ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ, Rev 13:6; Rev 16:9; τό πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ (βλασφημεῖται), 1 Pet 4:14 Rec.; δόξας, Jude 1:8; 2 Pet 2:10 (see δόξα, III. 3 b. γ.); εἰς τό πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, Mk 3:29; Lk 12:10 (εἰς θεούς, Plato, rep. 2, p. 381 e.). The earlier Greeks say βλασφημαν εἰς τινα, περί or κατά τίνος; (on the N. T. constructions cf. Winers Grammar, 222 (208); 629 (584); Buttmann, 146 (128)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Insult, Slander35 occurrences

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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