bebelos - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H952 — bur (“declare”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G952 βέβηλος (bebelos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. bebelos (beb'-ay-los) adj. 1. accessible (as by crossing the door-way) 2. (by implication, of Jewish notions) profane, heathenish, wicked It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include profane. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
bebelos (beb'-ay-los) adj. 1. accessible (as by crossing the door-way) 2. (by implication, of Jewish notions) profane, heathenish, wicked [from the base of G939 and belos "a threshold"] KJV: profane (person) Root(s): G939
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G952. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
profane
Usage: βέβηλος, -ον (βαίνω, whence βηλός, a threshold), [in LXX chiefly for חֹל ;] __1. permitted to be trodden, accessible (see DCG, ii, 422b); hence, __2. (opposite to ἱερός) unhallowed, profane: of things, 1Ti.4:7 6:20, 2Ti.2:16; of men, 1Ti.1:9, Heb.12:16 (cf. κοινός; Cremer, 140). † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bebelos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G952 (βέβηλος) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,
And the priest answered David, and said, There are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but holy loaves: if the young men have been kept at least from women, then they shall eat them.
And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place, he gave them away.
O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exulteth in his confidence and strength.
We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this thy holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of thy Majesty.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G952.
to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,
And the priest answered David, and said, There are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but holy loaves: if the young men have been kept at least from women, then they shall eat them.
And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.
And thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, even an end, is come in a season of iniquity, thus saith the Lord;
Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
And they shall teach my people to distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between unclean and clean.
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
and taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place, he gave them away.
O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exulteth in his confidence and strength.
We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this thy holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of thy Majesty.
The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.
slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G952, grouped by book.
Strong's G952 is a Greek entry for G952 βέβηλος (bebelos). bebelos (beb'-ay-los) adj. 1. accessible (as by crossing the door-way) 2. (by implication, of Jewish notions) profane, heathenish, wicked
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's G952 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G952 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as profane. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G952, with linked reader references where each row is available.