bebēlos

Strong’sG952

profane, secular, unspiritual, godless, worldly

stem bebēl-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

βέβηλος, -ον

(< βαίνω, whence βηλός, a threshold), [in LXX chiefly for חֹל;]

1. permitted to be trodden, accessible (v. DCG, ii, 422b); hence,

2. (opp. to ἱερός) unhallowed, profane: of things, I Ti 4:7 6:20, II Ti 2:16; of men, I Ti 1:9, He 12:16 (cf. κοινός; Cremer, 140).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G952 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbeb'-ay-los

accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked

Fromfrom the base of G939 and βηλός (a threshold);

King Jamesprofane (person).

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

βέβηλ-ος, ον,
Doric dialect βέβᾱλος Refs 4th c.AD+: (βαίνω, βηλός):— allowable to be trodden, probably of ground (opposed to ἱερός, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἢ πρὸς βεβήλοις ἢ πρὸς ἄλσεσιν θεῶν either on profane ground or.., Refs 5th c.BC+: hence generally, permitted, καὶ βέβηλα καὶ κεκρυμμένα λόγια public, current, Refs 5th c.BC+; βέβηλα permitted meats, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II of persons, unhallowed, ={ἀμύητος}, Refs 5th c.BC+; impure, Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, uninitiated, τελετῆς Refs 1st c.AD+. adverb -λωςRefs 1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

profane4×godless1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	bebēlos1×βέβηλος	bebēlas	bebēlem	bebēlois	bebēlais	bebēleim
object accusative	bebēlon	bebēlan		bebēloin1×βεβήλους	bebēlain2×βεβήλους
direct address vocative	bebēlor	bebēlar		bebēloir	bebēlair
of, belonging to genitive	bebēlou	bebēlau	bebēleu	bebēloiu	bebēlaiu	bebēleiu
to, for dative	bebēlo	bebēla	bebēle	bebēloi1×βεβήλοις	bebēlai	bebēlei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

bebēlstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

bebēl is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

bebēlamō — βεβηλόω, I profane

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

bebēlos“godless”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 12:16mē tinos pornos ē bebēlos hōs Ēsau, hos anti brōsiau henau …… one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single …

bebēloin“profane”objectaccusative plural1×

1 Timothy 4:7“profane”toin de bebēloin kai graōdoin muthoin paraitosōr. gumnazasōr de …But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for …

bebēloi“profane”to, fordative plural1×

1 Timothy 1:9… anupotaktoi, aseboi kai hamartōloi, anosioi kai bebēloi, patrolōoi kai mētrolōoi, androfonoi,… and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother …

bebēlain“profane”objectaccusative plural2×

1 Timothy 6:20“profane”… Timotheor, tan parathēkan fulassasar, ektraporōntos tain bebēlain kenofōniain kai antithesiain tau pseudōnumau gnōsiau,O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”

2 Timothy 2:16“profane”tain de bebēlain kenofōniain peristēosōr; epi polloterem gar prokoptali …But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,