Profane
חָנֵףStrong’s H2611chaneph (cha-neph)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaneph is the Hebrew word usually translated “godless” and “godless of”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:”
Meaning
- Hypocritical, godless, profane, hypocrite, irreligious
How it's translated
- godless 8
- a godless 3
- and godless of 1
- godless of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 8
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 13:16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
- Job 15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
- Job 17:8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- Job 34:30That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Hebrew dictionary
חָנֵף chaneph · profane
hypocritical, godless, profane, hypocrite, irreligious
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons.
- Irreverent; proceeding from a contempt of sacred things, or implying it; as profane words or language; profane swearing.
- Not sacred; secular; relating to secular things; as profane history.
- Polluted; not pure.
All definitions and other forms of “profane”
- Not purified or holy; allowed for common use; as a profane place. and 48. Ezekiel 42:20
- 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.
- To pollute; to defile; to apply to temporal uses; to use as base or common. Ezekiel 24:21
- To violate. Malachi 2:11
- To pollute; to debase. Leviticus 21:4
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.