βλασφημία
blasphemy
‘blasphemy’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 5 times (28%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (22%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 3 times (17%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (17%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 3 times (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G988 appears — 17 distinct verses across 9 books. 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.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 12:31 βλασφημία βλασφημία n nom sg fem n nom sg fem Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
- Matthew 15:19 βλασφημίαι n nom pl fem For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Matthew 26:65 βλασφημίαν n acc sg fem Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 3:28 βλασφημίαι n nom pl fem Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;
- Mark 7:22 βλασφημία n nom sg fem covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
- Mark 14:64 βλασφημίας n gen sg fem You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Luke 1 verse
John 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 5 verses
- Revelation 2:9 βλασφημίαν n acc sg fem "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
- Revelation 13:1 βλασφημίας n gen sg fem Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
- Revelation 13:5 βλασφημίας n acc pl fem A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
- Revelation 13:6 βλασφημίας n acc pl fem He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
- Revelation 17:3 βλασφημίας n gen sg fem He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
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.
βλασφημια (blasphēmía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “blasphemy.” Debuting at Matthew 12:31, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 17 verses — uncommon. Revelation dominates its distribution — 5 of 17 verses. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G988 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 →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 29%
- Matthew 3 verses 18%
- Mark 3 verses 18%
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 17 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 47%
- Johannine 6 verses · 35%
- Revelation 5 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 18%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%
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: Blasphemy 10×, Blasphemies 5×
- American Standard Version: Blasphemy 8×, Blasphemies 4×, Railing 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blasphemy 6×, Slander 5×, Blasphemous 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blasphemies 6×, Blasphemy 6×, Slander 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G988 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G988 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G988 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G988 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another's good name
- impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty
Word origin
Derived from βλασφημος (blásphēmos) (G989) — slanderous.
From G989 ; vilification (especially against God): - blasphemy evil speaking railing.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G988 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βλασφημίας blasphēmías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 14:64 | 8 |
| βλασφημία blasphēmía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 12:31 | 4 |
| βλασφημίαι blasphēmíai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 15:19 | 3 |
| βλασφημίαν blasphēmían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 26:65 | 3 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G988, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βλασφημια appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezekiel 35:12 βλασφημία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G988) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G988) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
