noun · feminine
dusfēmias
Strong’sG1426
evil report, defamation
stem dusfēmi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
** δυσφημία, -ας, ἡ
(< δύσφημος, slanderous), [in LXX: I Mac 7:38, III Mac 2:20 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1426 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddoos-fay-mee'-ah
defamation
Fromfrom a compound of G1418 and G5345;
King Jamesevil report.
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
ill language, especially words of ill omen, κατεῖχε.. πᾶν στρατόπεδον δυσφημίαις Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, curses, Refs 1st c.AD+; but, unsavoury details, Refs 4th c.BC+
II blasphemy, slander, Refs 1st c.BC+
III ill fame, obloquy, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dusfēmias | dusfēmiais |
| object accusative | dusfēmian | dusfēmiain |
| direct address vocative | dusfēmiar | dusfēmiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dusfēmiau1×δυσφημίας | dusfēmiaiu |
| to, for dative | dusfēmia | dusfēmiai |
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
dusfēmia 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
dusfēmiau“slander”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 6:8dia doxau kai atimiau, dia dusfēmiau kai eufēmiau; hōs planois kai alēthois,through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet …