adjective
blasfēmos
Strong’sG989
slanderous
stem blasfēm-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 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.
βλάσφημος, -ον
(< βλασ-, of uncertain deriv., v. Thayer, Boisacq; + φήμη, speech), [in LXX: Is 66:3 (מְבָרֵךְ אָוֶן), Wi 1:6, Si 3:16, II Mac 9:28 10:4, 36 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G989 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
speaking ill-omened words, evil-speaking, Refs 4th c.BC+: with genitive, against.., Refs 1st c.AD+
2 of words, slanderous, libellous, δέδοικα μὴ βλάσφημον μὲν εἰπεῖν ἀληθὲς δ᾽ ᾖ Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb -μωςRefs 2nd c.AD+
3 blasphemous, ἔθνη LXX+NT: substantive, blasphemer, LXX+NT
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.
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 | blasfēmos | blasfēmas | blasfēmem | blasfēmois1×βλάσφημοι | blasfēmais | blasfēmeim1×βλάσφημα |
| object accusative | blasfēmon1×βλάσφημον | blasfēman1×βλάσφημον | blasfēmoin | blasfēmain | ||
| direct address vocative | blasfēmor | blasfēmar | blasfēmoir | blasfēmair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | blasfēmou | blasfēmau | blasfēmeu | blasfēmoiu | blasfēmaiu | blasfēmeiu |
| to, for dative | blasfēmo | blasfēma | blasfēme | blasfēmoi | blasfēmai | blasfēmei |
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
blasfēm 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
blasfēmon“blasphemer”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Timothy 1:13tem proterem arōnton blasfēmon kai diōkton kai hubriston; alla elēima, …I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man …
blasfēman“slanderous”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:11… megoterois arōntois ouk feralō kata autoiu blasfēman krisian.… and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.
blasfēmois“abusive”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Timothy 3:2… tois anthrōpois filautois, filargurois, alazōnois, huperēfanois, blasfēmois, gonevoi apeithois, acharistois, anosiois,… themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
blasfēmeim“blasphemous”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Acts 6:11“blasphemous”… legarōntoin hoti Akouanē autou lalarōntou rēmeim blasfēmeim eis Mōuson kai ton theon;… men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”