βλασφημία blasphēmia

Greek word for “blasphemy” · Strong’s G988 · used 18 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

βλασφημία, -ας, ἡ; (βλάσφημος);

How it is translated

Glosses given for blasphēmia in context, with how often each is used:

• blasphemy 8
• slander 5
• blasphemies 3
• slanders 1
• blasphemies? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 13 (3), Matthew 12 (1), Matthew 15 (1), Matthew 26 (1), Mark 3 (1), Mark 7 (1), Mark 14 (1), Luke 5 (1), John 10 (1), Ephesians 4 (1)

Forms

• βλασφημίας 8
• βλασφημία 4
• βλασφημίαι 3
• βλασφημίαν 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with blasphēmia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• βλασφημέω blasphēmeō “to blaspheme” 3
• μοιχεία moicheia “adultery” 2
• στόμα stoma “mouth” 3
• πονηρός ponēros “evil/bad” 3
• κέρας keras “horn” 2
• κακία kakia “evil” 2
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 3
• θυμός thumos “wrath” 2
• δέκα deka “ten” 2
• ὀργή orgē “wrath” 2
• ὄνομα onoma “name” 3
• θηρίον thērion “wild animal” 2

Key verses

The verses using blasphēmia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Matthew 26:65 — Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
• Mark 7:22 — Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Luke 5:21 — And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
• Ephesians 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Colossians 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• 1 Timothy 6:4 — He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• Jude 1:9 — Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The…
• Revelation 2:9 — I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the…
• Revelation 13:1 — And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his…
• Revelation 13:5 — And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
• Revelation 17:3 — So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.