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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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(Strong's #1418 — Particle — dusphemeo — doos )

lit., "to speak injuriously" (from dus, an inseparable prefix signifying "opposition, injury, etc., and phemi, "to speak"), is translated "defamed," 1 Corinthians 4:13 . Some mss. have blasphemeo. See BLASPHEME.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Defame'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​d/defame.html. 1940.
 
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