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To profane

βεβηλόωStrong’s G0953

bebēloō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Bebēloō is the Greek word usually translated “profane”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?”
Matthew 12:5 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “profane”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • profane 1
  • to profane 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Acts 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

βεβηλόω bebēloō · to profane

βεβηλόω, -ῶ (βέβηλος), [in LXX chiefly for חלל ;] to profane: τ. σάββατον, Mat.12:5; τ. ἱερόν, Act.24:6 (Cremer, 141).† SYN.: κοινόω, which see (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “profane” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PROFA'NE, adjective

[Latin profanus; pro and fanum, a temple.]

  1. Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons.
  2. Irreverent; proceeding from a contempt of sacred things, or implying it; as profane words or language; profane swearing.
  3. Not sacred; secular; relating to secular things; as profane history.
  4. Polluted; not pure.
All definitions and other forms of “profane”
  1. Not purified or holy; allowed for common use; as a profane place. and 48. Ezekiel 42:20
  2. Obscene; heathenish; tending to bring reproach on religion; as profane fables. 1 Timothy 4:7

PROFA'NE, verb transitive

To violate any thing sacred, or treat it with abuse, irreverence, obloquy or contempt; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the sabbath; to profane the Scriptures or the ordinances of God.

  1. To pollute; to defile; to apply to temporal uses; to use as base or common. Ezekiel 24:21
  2. To violate. Malachi 2:11
  3. To pollute; to debase. Leviticus 21:4
  4. To put to a wrong use.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.