Strong's Greek · G953

G953 bebēlóō

βεβηλόω

beb-ay-lo'-o

to profane

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bebēlóō appears twice in Scripture, in Matthew 12:5 and Acts 24:6. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to desecrate

In the King James Version

profane

Derivation

from G952 (βέβηλος);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Matthew 12:5

“Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?”

Acts 24:6

“and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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