βλασφημέω

βλασφημέω — blasphēméō

βλασφημέω, βλασφήμω; imperfect ἐβλασφήμουν; 1 aorist ἐβλασφήμησα; passive (present βλασφημοῦμαι); 1 future βλασφημηθήσομαι; (βλάσφημος, which see); to speak reproachfully, rail at, revile, calumniate (Vulg.blasphemo); absolutely: Luk 22:65; Act 13:45; Act 18:6; Act 26:11; 1Ti 1:20; 1Pe 4:4; with accusative of person or thing (as in later Greek, Joseph, Plutarch, Appian, etc.): Mat 27:39; Mar 3:28 L T Tr WH;; Luk 23:39; Tit 3:2; Jas 2:7; Jud 1:10; with the cognate noun βλασφημίαν, to utter blasphemy (Plato, legg. 7, p. 800 c.; see ἀγαπάω at the end), Mar 3:28 R G (where L T Tr WH ὅσα for ὅσας, see above); (followed by ἐν, 2Pe 2:12; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) as at end, and see ἀγνοέω, a.). Passive βλασφημοῦμαι to be evil spoken of, reviled, railed at: Rom 3:8; Rom 14:16; 1Co 4:13 (T WH Tr marginal reading δυσφημούμενοι); 1Co 10:30; Tit 2:5; 2Pe 2:2; τό ὄνομα τίνος, Rom 2:24; 1Ti 6:1. Specifically, of those who by contemptuous speech intentionally come short of the reverence due to God or to sacred things (for גִּדֵּף, 2Ki 19:6; 2Ki 19:22 cf. 2Ki 19:4; cf. Grimm on 2Ma 10:34); absolutely: Mat 9:3; Mat 26:65; Mar 2:7 L T Tr WH; (Joh 10:36); τόν Θεόν, Rev 16:11; Rev 16:21; τήν θεάν, Act 19:37 (G L T Tr WH τήν Θεόν); τό ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ, Rev 13:6; Rev 16:9; τό πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ (βλασφημεῖται), 1Pe 4:14 Rec.; δόξας, Jud 1:8; 2Pe 2:10 (see δόξα, III. 3 b. γ.); εἰς τό πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, Mar 3:29; Luk 12:10 (εἰς θεούς, Plato, rep. 2, p. 381 e.). The earlier Greeks say βλασφημαν εἰς τινα, περί or κατά τίνος; (on the N. T. constructions cf. Winers Grammar, 222 (208); 629 (584); Buttmann, 146 (128)).