# G989 βλάσφημος

βλάσφημος (blásphēmos), Strong’s G989: scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God) KJV: blasphemer(-mous), railing. Occurs 10 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G989 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*blásphēmos* — scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God)

KJV: blasphemer(-mous), railing

Built from [βλάπτω bláptō](https://besorah.bible/word/G984) (to hinder) + [φήμη phḗmē](https://besorah.bible/word/G5345) (a saying, i.e. rum)

Occurs 10 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 6:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/6?v=11) — Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
- [1 Timothy 1:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/1?v=13) — although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly…
- [2 Timothy 3:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/3?v=2) — For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful…
- [2 Peter 2:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=11) — whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/1?v=6) — For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness…
- [Sirach 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/3?v=16) — 
- [2 Maccabees 9:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/9?v=28) — So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended…
- [2 Maccabees 10:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/10?v=4) — When they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such…
- [2 Maccabees 10:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/10?v=36) — Others climbing up in the same way, while the enemies were distracted with those who had made their way within, set…