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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.

2. (a.) Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

3. (a.) Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

4. (a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

5. (v.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

6. (v.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PROFANE

pro-fan' (verb chalal, adjective chalal, chol; bebeloo, bebelos): From profanus, "before (i.e. outside) the temple," therefore unholy, polluted, secular, is of frequent occurrence (verb and adjective) in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. It occurs as the translation of chol in the King James Version only in Ezekiel (22:26, the Revised Version (British and American) "common"; 42:20:00; 44:23:00; 48:15, the Revised Version (British and American) "for common use"); as the translation of chalal in Leviticus 21:7, 14, the Revised Version margin "polluted"; and Ezekiel 21:25, where, for the King James Version "thou profane wicked prince of Israel," the Revised Version (British and American) has "thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel." "To profane" (chalal) is seen in Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 19:8 Nehemiah 13:17, 18 Psalm 89:39 Isaiah 43:28 Ezekiel 22:8, 26, etc. "Profaneness" in Jeremiah 23:15 (chanuppah) is in the American Standard Revised Version "ungodliness." In the New Testament "profane" occurs in the sense of unholy, godless, regardless of God and divine things (1 Timothy 1:9; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:20 2 Timothy 2:16 Hebrews 12:16), and "to profane," or violate, in Matthew 12:5 Acts 24:6. The verb is frequent in Apocrypha in 1 Maccabees (1:43, 45, 63; 2:34, etc.; also in 2 Maccabees 8:2; 10:05; compare 2 Esdras 15:8; Judith 4:3, 12; 1 Maccabees 1:48; 2 Maccabees 4:13). In numerous cases the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "profane" for other words and phrases in the King James Version, as for "to prostitute" (Leviticus 19:29), "an hypocrite" (Isaiah 9:17), "pollute" (Numbers 18:32 Ezekiel 7:21), etc.

W. L. Walker

Greek

953. bebeloo -- to profane
... to profane. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: bebeloo Phonetic Spelling:
(beb-ay-lo'-o) Short Definition: I profane Definition: I profane, pollute, violate. ...
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952. bebelos -- permitted to be trodden, by impl. unhallowed
... unhallowed. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: bebelos Phonetic Spelling:
(beb'-ay-los) Short Definition: profane, secular, unspiritual, godless ...
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2839. koinos -- common
... koinos Phonetic Spelling: (koy-nos') Short Definition: common, shared, unclean
Definition: (a) common, shared, (b) Hebraistic use: profane; dirty, unclean ...
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2840. koinoo -- to make common
... call common, defile, pollute. From koinos; to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially)
-- call common, defile, pollute, unclean. see GREEK koinos. ...
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462. anosios -- unholy
... Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anosios Phonetic Spelling: (an-os'-ee-
os) Short Definition: regarding nothing as holy Definition: unholy, profane. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2610. chaneph -- to be polluted or profane
... to be polluted or profane. Transliteration: chaneph Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-nafe')
Short Definition: polluted. ... corrupt, defile, greatly, pollute, profane. ...
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2490c. chalal -- to pollute, defile, profane
... 2490b, 2490c. chalal. 2491 . to pollute, defile, profane. Transliteration:
chalal Short Definition: began. Word Origin a prim. root ...
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2611. chaneph -- profane, irreligious
... 2610, 2611. chaneph. 2612 . profane, irreligious. Transliteration: chaneph
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-nafe') Short Definition: godless. ...
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2455. chol -- profaneness, commonness
... 2454, 2455. chol. 2456 . profaneness, commonness. Transliteration: chol Phonetic
Spelling: (khole) Short Definition: profane. ... common, profane place, unholy. ...
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2490. chalal -- to bore, pierce
... A primitive root (compare chalah); properly, to bore, ie (by implication) to wound,
to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break ...
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2491. chalal -- pierced
... chalal. 2491a . pierced. Transliteration: chalal Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lawl')
Short Definition: kill. kill, profane, slain man, slew, deadly wounded ...
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2114. zuwr -- to be a stranger
... A primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner,
strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery ...
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8610. taphas -- to lay hold of, wield
... 8), caught (5), grasp (1), grasps (1), handle (4), handled (1), hold (1), lay hold
(1), lays hold (1), occupy (1), overlaid (1), play (1), profane (1), seize (5 ...
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Library

December the Thirteenth the Holy and the Profane
... DECEMBER The Thirteenth THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE. "Put difference between
the holy and the unholy." "Leviticus 10:1-10. The peril ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/december the thirteenth the holy.htm

The Profane and Wicked Prince of Israel
... Names And Titles of the Antichrist 19. The Profane and Wicked Prince of
Israel. "And thou, profane wicked Prince of Israel, whose ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/19 the profane and wicked.htm

The Heinous Sin of Profane Cursing and Swearing
... The Heinous Sin of Profane Cursing and Swearing. Matthew 5:34 " "But I
say unto you, Swear not at all." Among the many heinous ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the heinous sin of profane.htm

The Profane Account Given of the Origin of Christ and the Holy ...
... Chapter XI."The Profane Account Given of the Origin of Christ and the Holy Ghost
Sternly Rebuked An Absurdity Respecting the Attainment of the Knowledge of ...
/.../tertullian/against the valentinians/chapter xi the profane account given.htm

Profane History Gives no Account of These Matters.
... Theophilus to Autolycus: Book II. Chapter XXXIII."Profane History Gives
No Account of These Matters. Who, then, of those called ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxxiii profane history gives no.htm

Profane Authors had no Means of Knowing the Truth.
... Theophilus to Autolycus: Book III. Chapter II."Profane Authors Had No
Means of Knowing the Truth. For it was fit that they who ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter ii profane authors had no.htm

These Vagaries Stimulated Some Profane Corruptions of Christianity ...
... Chapter XXXIV."These Vagaries Stimulated Some Profane Corruptions of
Christianity The Profanity of Simon Magus Condemned. No tenet ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxxiv these vagaries stimulated some.htm

Sacred Scripture Compared with Profane Authors.
... Book II. Chapter 42."Sacred Scripture Compared with Profane Authors.
63. But just as poor as the store of gold and silver and ...
/.../chapter 42 sacred scripture compared with.htm

But Does not this Doctrine Make Men Careless and Profane?
... Lord's Day 24 Question 64 But does not this doctrine make men careless and profane?
But does not this doctrine make men careless and profane? ...
/.../various/the heidelberg catechism /question 64 but does not.htm

Argument. From the Prison they are Led Forth with Joy into the ...
... From the Prison They are Led Forth with Joy into the Amphitheatre, Especially
Perpetua and Felicitas. All Refuse to Put on Profane Garments. ...
/.../chapter vi argument from the prison.htm

Thesaurus

Profane (69 Occurrences)
... peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred;
secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. ...
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Desecrate (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert
from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an ...
/d/desecrate.htm - 9k

Godless (31 Occurrences)
... out the idea of "godless" for "hypocrite," for in Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 10:6 Psalm
35:16 this same Hebrew word chaneph is translated "profane." The principal ...
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Irreligious (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Multi-Version Concordance Irreligious (7 Occurrences). ...
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Profanity (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality or state of being profane; profaneness;
irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy. ...
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Profaning (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profane. Multi-Version
Concordance Profaning (10 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 11:27 ...
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Profaned (43 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Profane. Multi-Version Concordance Profaned
(43 Occurrences). Acts 21:28 crying, Israelites, help! ...
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Ahasuerus (28 Occurrences)
... 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in profane history,
the king of Media and the conqueror of Nineveh. (2 ...
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Sanctifieth (21 Occurrences)
... you. (ASV). Leviticus 21:15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people:
for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him. (ASV). Leviticus ...
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Sanctifies (14 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Leviticus 21:15 He shall not profane his seed among his people:
for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'" (WEB NAS). Leviticus ...
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Profane (69 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:5
Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Acts 24:6
He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Timothy 1:9
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Timothy 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,
(WEY DBY)

Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 21:27
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
(WEB)

Exodus 20:25
And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.
(Root in JPS DBY NAS RSV)

Leviticus 10:10
and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
(See NAS)

Leviticus 18:21
"'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 19:12
"'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 19:29
"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:3
I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Leviticus 21:4
He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 21:7
"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS)

Leviticus 21:9
"'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 21:12
neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 21:14
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS)

Leviticus 21:15
He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 21:23
He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 22:2
"Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 22:9
"'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 22:15
The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 22:32
You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 18:32
You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Numbers 35:33
And ye profane not the land which ye 'are' in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;
(YLT)

Nehemiah 13:17
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget ?God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
(DBY YLT)

Job 13:16
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
(DBY YLT)

Job 15:34
For the company of the profane 'is' gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
(YLT)

Job 17:8
Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
(YLT)

Job 20:5
That the singing of the wicked 'is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
(YLT)

Job 27:8
For what 'is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
(YLT)

Job 34:30
From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
(YLT)

Job 36:13
And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
(YLT)

Psalms 35:16
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Psalms 89:31
If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;
(See JPS DBY)

Psalms 89:34
My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
(See JPS DBY YLT)

Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny thee , and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.
(See JPS ASV NAS RSV)

Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
(WEB ASV YLT)

Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
(WEB ASV YLT)

Isaiah 23:9
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.
(DBY)

Isaiah 33:14
Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?
(YLT)

Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Isaiah 56:6
Also the aliens, that join themselves to the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by My covenant:
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Ezekiel 7:21
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 7:22
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 21:25
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
(KJV DBY WBS NIV)

Ezekiel 22:16
You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 24:21
Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 28:16
By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 39:7
My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 42:20
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
(KJV WBS YLT NAS)

Ezekiel 44:7
in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS)

Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
(KJV DBY WBS NAS)

Ezekiel 48:15
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
(KJV WBS)

Daniel 11:31
Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Amos 2:7
They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Malachi 1:12
"But you profane it, in that you say,'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Desecrate (9 Occurrences)

Godless (31 Occurrences)

Irreligious (7 Occurrences)

Profanity (2 Occurrences)

Profaning (10 Occurrences)

Profaned (43 Occurrences)

Ahasuerus (28 Occurrences)