Profaneness
חֹ֫נֶףStrong’s H2612choneph (cho-neph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Choneph is the Hebrew word usually translated “godlessness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.”
Meaning
- Hypocrisy, godlessness, hypocrite, profaneness
How it's translated
- godlessness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫נֶף choneph · profaneness
hypocrisy, godlessness, hypocrite, profaneness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “profaneness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROFA'NENESS, noun
Irreverence of sacred things; particularly, the use of language which implies irreverence towards God; the taking of God's name in vain.
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.