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Lexicon :: Strong's G988 - blasphēmia

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βλασφημία
Transliteration
blasphēmia (Key)
Pronunciation
blas-fay-me'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:621,107

Strong’s Definitions

βλασφημία blasphēmía, blas-fay-me'-ah; from G989; vilification (especially against God):—blasphemy, evil speaking, railing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G988 in the following manner: blasphemy (16x), railing (2x), evil speaking (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G988 in the following manner: blasphemy (16x), railing (2x), evil speaking (1x).

  1. slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another's good name

  2. impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βλασφημία blasphēmía, blas-fay-me'-ah; from G989; vilification (especially against God):—blasphemy, evil speaking, railing.
STRONGS G988:
βλασφημία, -ας, 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]; Mark 14:64; 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; πρὸς τὸν θεόν, Revelation 13:6. (Euripides, Plato, Demosthenes, others; for נֶאָצָה Ezekiel 35:12.) [BB. DD. under the word Blasphemy; Campbell, Diss. on the Gospels, diss. 9, part 2.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ezekiel
35:12
Matthew
12:31; 12:31; 15:19; 26:65
Mark
2:7; 3:28; 7:22; 14:64
Luke
5:21
John
10:33
Ephesians
4:31
Colossians
3:8
1 Timothy
6:4
2 Peter
2:11
Jude
1:9
Revelation
2:9; 13:1; 13:5; 13:6; 17:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G988 matches the Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmia),
which occurs 18 times in 17 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:31 - Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:19 - For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:65 - Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:28 - “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:22 - coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:64

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:64 - You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:21 - And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:33 - The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:31 - Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:8 - But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:4 - he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:9 - But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:9 - “‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander[fn] of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:1 - And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:5 - And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:6 - It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling,[fn] that is, those who dwell in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:3 - And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
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