Words the Bible translates as profane
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥalalחָלַלto treat as common what is holy: to profane, defile, or strip of its sacred standing
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- to begin, to make a start at something or do it for the first time
- to pierce, wound, or run through, often fatally
- to play on the pipe or flute
- ḥalalחָלָלa profaned person; someone stripped of holy standing and treated as defiled
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- one fatally pierced; a person run through and killed or left dying, above all the battlefield dead
- bebēloōβεβηλόωto profanenot studied yet
- koinosκοινόςshared: belonging to a whole group together rather than to one person
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- defiled: made unfit to touch what is holy, and so to be kept away from it
- bebēlosβέβηλοςprofanenot studied yet
- koinoōκοινόωto make common: to render or treat something as ritually unclean, stripping it of clean or holy standing; to defile
- ḥanephחָנֵףgodless: a person cut off from God by moral corruption; impious, profane, defiled.
- ḥanephחָנֵףto defile, or to be defiled: to spoil a land by bloodshed and unfaithfulness until it can no longer hold God's presence, and to turn a person godless
- ḥolחֹלcommon: ordinary rather than holy, not claimed by God and so free for everyday use
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