Blasphemos means “railing” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H989 — betel (“cease”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G989 βλάσφημος (blasphemos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. blasphemos (blas'-fay-mos) adj. 1. scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men) 2. (specially) irreverent (against God) It has 11 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include against, blasphemer, and men. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
blasphemos (blas'-fay-mos) adj. 1. scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men) 2. (specially) irreverent (against God) [from a derivative of G984 and G5345] KJV: blasphemer(-mous), railing Root(s): G984, G5345
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G989. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
blasphemous
Usage: βλάσφημος, -ον (βλασ-, of uncertain deriv., see Thayer, Boisacq; + φήμη, speech), [in LXX: Isa.66:3 (מְבָרֵךְ אָוֶן), Wis.1:6, Sir.3:16, 2Ma.9:28 10:4, 36 * ;] __(a) evil-speaking, slanderous, blasphemous: Act.6:11, 2Ti.3:2, 2Pe.2:11 (cf. Ju 9); __(b) as subst. a blasphemer: 1Ti.1:13 (Cremer, 570). † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render blasphemos, 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 New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G989 (βλάσφημος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine’s blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains.
When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned anymore against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.
Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burned the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G989.
But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine’s blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains.
When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned anymore against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.
Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burned the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
For wisdom is a loving spirit; And will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: For God is witness of his reins, And a true beholder of his heart, And a hearer of his tongue.
He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; And he that angereth his mother is cursed of God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G989, grouped by book.
Blasphemos (Strong's G989) is a Greek word most simply glossed "railing". blasphemos (blas'-fay-mos) adj. 1. scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men) 2. (specially) irreverent (against God)
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G989 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G989 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 against, blasphemer, and men. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G989, with linked reader references where each row is available.