2001 Translation

DYSPHĒMOS, dysphēmos

Sounds Like: doos-FEE-mos

Translations: evil-speaking, abusive, slanderous, defamatory, disgraceful, ill-spoken of, infamous

From the root: ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is a compound adjective formed from 'δυσ-' (dys-), meaning 'bad' or 'difficult', and 'φήμη' (phēmē), meaning 'speech' or 'report'. It describes something or someone that is spoken of badly, or that engages in bad or abusive speech. It can refer to words that are slanderous or defamatory, or to a reputation that is disgraceful.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine; or Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1426 (Lookup on BibleHub)

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From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΔΥΣΦΗΜΑ — evil-speaking, slanderous, blasphemous, abusive, evil things, slanderous things, blasphemous things, abusive things
• ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΙ — slanderous, blasphemous, evil-speaking, ill-spoken, infamous
• ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΙΣ — (to) slanderous, (to) abusive, (to) evil-speaking, (to) ill-spoken

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