Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to profane
Usage: 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)
Bebeloo means “profane” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H953 — bor (“cistern”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G953 βεβηλόω (bebeloo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. bebeloo (beb-ay-loh'-o) v. 1. to profane, desecrate [from G952] It has 85 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include profane. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
bebeloo (beb-ay-loh'-o) v. 1. to profane, desecrate [from G952] KJV: profane Root(s): G952
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to profane
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bebeloo, 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.
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Strong's G953 (βεβηλόω) appears 86 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in 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?
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
67 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And ye shall keep the Sabbaths, because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be put to death: every one who shall do a work on it, that soul shall be destroyed from the midst of his people.
And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.
16 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
First 85 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G953.
And ye shall keep the Sabbaths, because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be put to death: every one who shall do a work on it, that soul shall be destroyed from the midst of his people.
And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.
And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.
Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a-whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me.
They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy.
They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.
And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a-whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burned with fire.
And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God is upon him: I am the Lord.
But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.
And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I am the Lord that sanctifies him.
Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw nigh to the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and let them take heed concerning the holy things of the children of Israel, so they shall not profane my holy name in any of the things which they consecrate to me: I am the Lord.
And they shall keep my ordinances, that they do not bear iniquity because of them, and die because of them, if they shall profane them: I am the Lord God that sanctifies them.
And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord.
And ye shall not profane the name of the Holy One, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord that sanctifies you,
And ye shall not bear sin by reason of it, for ye shall have offered an offering of firstfruits from it, and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.
And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.
Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do.
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
His ways are profane at all times; Thy judgments are removed from before him: He will gain the mastery over all his enemies.
He has reached forth his hand for retribution; They have profaned his covenant.
They have burned thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; They have profaned the habitation of thy name.
If they should profane my ordinances, And not keep my commandments;
Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; And I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.
Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant; Thou hast profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground.
For mine own sake I will do this for thee, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.
Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.
And I will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and as for all that keep my Sabbaths from profaning them, and that take hold of my covenant;
And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.
But ye turned and profaned my name, to bring back every one his servant, and every one his handmaid, whom ye had sent forth free and at their own disposal, to be to you menservants and maidservants.
In the day of his wrath The Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, And not spared: He has brought down in his fury All the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground The strongholds of the daughter of Judah: He has profaned her king and her princes.
And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.
And they have dishonored me before my people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while ye speak to a people hearing vain speeches.
But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my Sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.
because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my Sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.
But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.
because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.
And as to you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord, even the Lord; Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter if ye hearken to me, then shall ye no more profane my holy name by your gifts and by devices.
And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that my name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, saith the Lord.
And they have set at nought my holy things, and in thee they have profaned my Sabbaths.
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.
So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my Sabbaths.
And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house;
Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom ye have left, shall fall by the sword.
and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, Hear ye the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord; Forasmuch as ye have rejoiced against my sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste; and against the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;
Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.
And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned my holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of his land.
But I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; I do not this, O house of Israel, for your sakes, but because of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, among whom ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes.
And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
when they set my doorway by their doorway, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;
And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate.
wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
Her prophets are light and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his meats set thereon are despised.
Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?
Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.
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?
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
and forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the Sabbaths and festival days:
that they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:
Wherefore they chose rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.
But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the king’s commandment, to profane the Sabbath day.
For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.
And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;
At what time and day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citterns, and harps, and cymbals.
And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple profaned of ungodly men;
Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Chislev.
In her virginity, lest she should be defiled And gotten with child in her father’s house; And having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself; And when she is married, lest she should be barren.
Thou didst stain thy honor, And pollute thy seed: So that thou broughtest wrath upon thy children, And wast grieved for thy folly.
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Bebeloo (Strong's G953) is a Greek word most simply glossed "profane". bebeloo (beb-ay-loh'-o) v. 1. to profane, desecrate [from G952]
This page currently indexes 85 linked usages for Strong's G953 across 19 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G953 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 67 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 16 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G953, with linked reader references where each row is available.