Profane?

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Subject Heading:- ' Profane?'

1) Not relating to that which is sacred or religious; 'secular' e.g., "a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane"
2) Of a person or their behaviour:- not respectful of religious practice; irreverent.

H2490 / H2491:- Hebrew - chalal
H2610:- Hebrew - chaneph
H2455:- Hebrew - chol
G953:- Greek - bebeloo
G952:- Greek - bebelos

H2490 - châlal (khaw-lal')

- A primitive root (compare H2470); properly to bore, that is, (by implication) to wound, to dissolve;​

- figuratively to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one’s word), to begin (as if by an opening-wedge);​

- denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute)​

- Translated:- begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof,​

X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.​

(Total KJV occurrences: 142)​

H2491 - châlâl (khaw-lawl')

- From H2490; pierced (especially to death);​

- figuratively polluted​

- Translated:- kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded.​

(Total KJV occurrences: 94)​

H2610 - chânêph (khaw-nafe')

- A primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral sense​

- Translated:- corrupt, defile, X greatly, pollute, profane.​

(Total KJV occurrences: 11)​

H2455 - chôl (khole)

- From H2490; properly exposed; hence profane​

- Translated:- common, profane (place), unholy.​

(Total KJV occurrences: 7)​

G953 - bebēloō (beb-ay-lo'-o)

- From G952; to desecrate​

- Translated:- profane.​

- usage:- Matthew 12:5, Acts 24:6​

G952 - bebēlos (beb'-ay-los)

- From the base of G939 and bēlos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door way),​

that is, (by implication of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked.​

- Translation:- profane (person).​

- usage:- 1 Timothy 1:9; 4:7; 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:16; Hebrews 12:16​

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New Testament Usage:-

G953 - bebēloō (beb-ay-lo'-o)
- From G952; to desecrate
- Translated:- profane.
- usage:- Matthew 12:5, Acts 24:6

'Or have ye not read in the law,​

how that on the sabbath days​

the priests in the temple profane the sabbath,​

and are blameless?'​

(Mat 12:5)​

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'Who also hath gone about to profane the temple:​

whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.'​

(Act 24:6)​

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G952 - bebēlos (beb'-ay-los)
- From the base of G939 and bēlos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door way),
that is, (by implication of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked.
- Translation:- profane (person).
- usage:- 1 Timothy 1:9; 4:7; 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:16; Hebrews 12:16

'Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,​

but for the lawless and disobedient,​

for the ungodly and for sinners,​

for unholy and profane,​

for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers,​

for manslayers,'​

(1Tim. 1:9)​

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'But refuse profane and old wives' fables,​

and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.'​

(1Tim. 4:7)​

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'O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,​

avoiding profane and vain babblings,​

and oppositions of science falsely so called:​

'Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.​

Grace be with thee. Amen.'​

(1Tim, 6:20-21)​

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But shun profane and vain babblings:​

for they will increase unto more ungodliness.​

And their word will eat as doth a canker:​

of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;'​

(2Tim, 2:16-17)​

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Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;​

lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,​

and thereby many be defiled;'​

(Heb 12:15)​

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Old Testament Usage

Profane - chalal (H2490 & 2491) -

* To be polluted or common:-

Leviticus 21:4 & 9​

* To pollute make common:-

Leviticus 18:21; 19:8 & 12; 20:3; 21:6,9,12,15,23; 22:2,9,15,32​

Nehemiah 13:17-18​

Psalm 89:39​

Isaiah 43:28​

Ezekiel 22:8 & 26; 23:38-39; 24:21; 28:16; 36:20,21,22,23​

Amos 2:7​

Mal. 1:12; 2:10-11​

* To be profane (H2610) chaneph:-

Jeremiah 23:11​

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*To be polluted (H2490/91) chalal:-

Ezekiel 22:26; 25:3 36:23​

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* Profaneness (channuppah):-
Jeremiah 23:15

* This is not a comprehensive list as you can see, but is as far as I can go at present,

'And they shall teach My People the difference between the holy and profane,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.'
(Eze, 44:23)

* Esau is spoken of as profane, as is the anointed or covering cherub of Ezekiel 28:13-19.

'Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.'
(Heb. 12:16-17)

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