δυσφημία
defamation
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1426 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, δυσφημια (dysphēmía) means “defamation.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to 1 Corinthians (50%), then 2 Corinthians. It first appears in 1 Corinthians 4:13. It clusters with δυσ-, δυσβαστακτος and δυσεντερια under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1426 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 50%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 50%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Evil report 1×
- American Standard Version: Evil report 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Slander 1×, We are slandered 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bad report 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1426 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1426 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1426 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1426 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the condition of one who is defamed
Word origin
Derived from δυσ- (dys-) (G1418) — hard.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1426 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δυσφημίας dysphēmías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 6:8 | 1 |
| δυσφημούμενοι dysphēmoúmenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 4:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1426, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- δυσβαστακτος dysbástaktos G1419 hard to bear
- δυσεντερια dysentería G1420 dysentery
- δυσερμηνευτος dysermḗneutos G1421 hard to interpret
- δυσκολος dýskolos G1422 hard to please
- δυσνοητος dysnóētos G1425 hard to understand
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
