βλάσφημος
blasphēmos · slanderous, blasphemous
Greek word · Strong’s number G989 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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blasphēmos (βλάσφημος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “slanderous, blasphemous”.
Slanderous, insulting; blasphemous, offending God or someone; a blasphemer.
How to say it
blas·phē·mos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Insulting God or others.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- blasphemous ×2
- blasphemer ×1
- blasphemers ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 6:11
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13
though formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man. But I was shown mercy, because I acted in ignorance in unbelief,
- 2 Timothy 3:2
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- 2 Peter 2:11
whereas angels, though they are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a blasphemous judgment.