Greek adjective · G989
βλάσφημος
blasphemosblas'-fay-mos
blasphemous
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: blásphēmos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G989is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G989
scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God)
The King James renders it: blasphemer(-mous), railing.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
blasphemos is rendered "blasphemous". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 6:11Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
Acts 6:11βλάσφημα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a blasphemer1
- a reviling1
- abusive1
- blasphemous1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βλάσφημον2
- βλάσφημα1
- βλάσφημοι1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
Acts
one use
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
- βλάσφημαblasphemaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: blasphemous
1 Timothy
one use
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- βλάσφημονblasphemonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a blasphemer
2 Timothy
one use
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- βλάσφημοιblasphemoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: abusive
2 Peter
one use
Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.
- βλάσφημονblasphemonadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a reviling
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.