βλάσφημος
blásphēmos · G989 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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insulting, slanderous, blasphemous
(Derivative of βλασφημέω ‘to blaspheme,’) Pertaining to being insulting and slanderous
ExamplesActs 6:11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
1 Timothy 1:13 even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
2 Timothy 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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 2 words
- ὑβριστής hybristḗs · G5197 · insolent person, insolent and violent, one who insults
- Greek noun denoting one who insults or treats others with contempt; overlaps with the calumnious, slanderous dimension of βλάσφημος, though ὑβριστής may emphasize violent insolence more than specifically impious speech against God.
- λοίδορος loídoros · G3060 · slanderer
- Greek noun for one who reviles or verbally abuses others; shares the slanderous, abusive speech component with βλάσφημος but typically applied to interpersonal slander rather than specifically blasphemy against God.
Contrasting words 2 words
- εὐλογητός eulogētós · G2128 · one to be praised
- Greek adjective meaning blessed or praiseworthy, the lexical opposite of blasphemous; where βλάσφημος denotes speech that vilifies or dishonors (especially God), εὐλογητός denotes that which is worthy of blessing and honor.
- εὐσεβής eusebḗs · G2152 · devout, pious, religious
- Greek adjective denoting one who is devout and reverent toward God; the direct opposite of βλάσφημος in its dimension of impiety, as εὐσεβής characterizes proper reverence rather than irreverence or blasphemy.
In the other Testament 1 word
- גָּדַף gâdaph · H1442 · to revile
- Hebrew verb meaning to blaspheme or revile God; though a verb rather than adjective, it captures the same semantic domain of blasphemous speech (e.g., 2 Kings 19:6, 22 of reviling/blaspheming the LORD).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Insulting, slanderous, blasphemous33.402
- Used adjectivally of irreverent speech, as of the blasphemous words the false witnesses claim Stephen spoke against Moses and God in Acts 6:11.
- Defamer, blasphemer33.403
- Used substantivally of a person characterized by such speech, as of Paul's own former self-description as a blasphemer, persecutor, and violent man in 1 Timothy 1:13.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βλάσφημον (βλάξ sluggish, stupid, and φήμη speech, report (others, βλάπτω (which see) and…
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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