G988 – blasphemia – βλασφημία – blasphemy, evil speaking, railing
- Strong’s ID:
- G988
- Greek Word:
- βλασφημία
- Transliteration:
- blasphēmia / blasphemia
- Pronunciation:
- blas-fay-me’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 19
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- Find “blasphemia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G989; vilification (especially against God):—blasphemy, evil speaking, railing.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another’s good name
2) impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.