Profaneness
חֲנֻפָּהStrong’s H2613chanuphah (cha-nu-phah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chanuphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wicked behavior”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.”
Meaning
- Profaneness, pollution, hypocrisy, godlessness
How it's translated
- wicked behavior 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲנֻפָּה chanuphah · profaneness
profaneness, pollution, hypocrisy, godlessness
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.