Lexical Summary bebēlos: permitted to be trodden, by implication unhallowed Original Word: βέβηλοςTransliteration: bebēlos Phonetic Spelling: (beb'-ay-los) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: permitted to be trodden, by implication unhallowed Meaning: permitted to be trodden, by implication unhallowed Strong's Concordance profane person. From the base of basis and belos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked -- profane (person). see GREEK basis Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 952: βέβηλοςβέβηλος, βεβηλον (ΒΑΩ, βαίνω, βηλός threshold); 1. accessible, lawful to be trodden; properly, used of places; hence, 2. profane, equivalent to חֹל (i. e. unhallowed, common), Leviticus 10:10; 1 Samuel 21:4; opposed to ἅγιος (as in (Ezekiel 22:26); Philo, vit. Moys. iii., § 18): 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:16; of men, profane i. e. ungodly: 1 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 12:16. (Often in Greek writings from Aeschylus down.) (Cf. Trench, § 101.) |
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