Lexicon blasphémia: slander Original Word: βλασφημία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: blasphémia Phonetic Spelling: (blas-fay-me'-ah) Short Definition: abusive or scurrilous language, blasphemy Definition: abusive or scurrilous language, blasphemy. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 988 blasphēmía (from blax, "sluggish/slow," and 5345 /phḗmē, "reputation, fame") – blasphemy – literally, slow (sluggish) to call something good (that really is good) – and slow to identify what is truly bad (that really is evil). Blasphemy (988 /blasphēmía) "switches" right for wrong (wrong for right), i.e. calls what God disapproves, "right" which "exchanges the truth of God for a lie" (Ro 1:25). See 987 (blasphēmeō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom blasphémosDefinitionslander NASB Translationabusive language (1), blasphemies (4), blasphemous (2), blasphemy (6), railing (1), slander (3), slanders (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 988: βλασφημίαβλασφημία, βλασφημίας, ἡ, railing, reviling ( Vulg.blasphemia); a. universally, slander, detraction, speech injurious to another's good name: Matthew 12:31; Matthew 15:19; Mark 3:28; Mark 7:22; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:8; 1 Timothy 6:4; Jude 1:9 (κρίσις βλασφημίας, equivalent to κρίσις βλάσφημος in 2 Peter 2:11, a judgment pronounced in reproachful terms); Revelation 2:9. b. specifically, impious and reproachful speech injurious to the divine majesty: Matthew 26:65; Mark 2:7 (R G); ; Luke 5:21; John 10:33; Revelation 13:5 (not Lachmann); ὄνομα or ὀνόματα βλασφημίας equivalent to βλάσφημα (cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; (Buttmann, § 132, 10)): Revelation 13:1; Revelation 17:3 (R G Tr, see γέμω); τοῦ πνεύματος, genitive of the object, Matthew 12:31; πρός τόν Θεόν, Revelation 13:6. (Euripides, Plato, Demosthenes, others; for נֶאָצָה Ezekiel 35:12.) (BB. DD. under the word ; Campbell, Diss. on the Gospels, diss. ix. part ii.)
Strong's blasphemy, evil speaking, railing. From blasphemos; vilification (especially against God) -- blasphemy, evil speaking, railing. see GREEK blasphemos |
