ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΙ, δυσφημοι
DYSPHĒMOI, dysphēmoi
Sounds Like: doos-FEE-moy
Translations: slanderous, blasphemous, evil-speaking, ill-spoken, infamous
From the root: ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is slanderous, blasphemous, or speaks evil. It refers to speech or actions that are abusive, defamatory, or impious. It can be used to characterize people who engage in such speech or the speech itself.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine; or Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1426 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 22:4
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
- ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΙΣ — (to) slanderous, (to) abusive, (to) evil-speaking, (to) ill-spoken
- ΔΥΣΦΗΜΟΣ — evil-speaking, abusive, slanderous, defamatory, disgraceful, ill-spoken of, infamous
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