Quick Definition
βέβηλος, ον Adj profane, secular, unspiritual, godless, worldly
Strong's Definition
from the base of 939 and belos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked
KJV Usage: profane (person)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βέβηλος, -ov, (BAQ, βαίνω, βηλός threshold) ; 1. accessible, lawful to be trodden; prop. used of places; hence 2. profane, equiv. to ὙΠ [i- e. unhallowed, common], Lev. x. 10; 1S. xxi.4; opp. to ἅγιος (as in [Ezek. xxii. 26]; Philo, vit. Moys. iii. § 18): 1 Tim. iv. 7; vi. 20; 2 Tim. ii. 16; of men, profane i.e. ungodly: 1 Tim. i. 9; Heb. xii. 16. (Often in Grk. writ. fr. Aeschyl. down.) [Cf. Trench § ci.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βέβηλος bebēlos 5x
pr. what is open and accessible to all; hence, profane, not religious, not connected with religion; unholy; a despiser, scorner, 1 Tim. 1:9; 4:7
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βέβηλος, -ον
(< βαίνω, whence βηλός, a threshold), [in LXX chiefly for חֹל;]
permitted to be trodden, accessible (v. DCG, ii, 422b); hence,
(opp. to ἱερός) unhallowed, profane: of things, I Ti 4:7 6:20, II Ti 2:16; of men, I Ti 1:9, He 12:16 (cf. κοινός; Cremer, 140).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βέβηλος. Syll 255 (ii/ A.D.) χώραν [σἸκαπανεύειν βέβηλον ἐϊ πέϊτασσες —the famous ‘ Gadatas’ inscr., translated from a rescript of Darius I. ‘The derived verb is of late formation, no earlier authority than LXX being quotable. The adj. was an old term. techn. of religion, and not a word of the vernacular : the LXX translators needed it, and may well have equipped it with a regularly formed verb.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βέβηλος (bebēlos) — profane. βέβηλ-ος, ον, Doric dialect βέβᾱλος [Refs 4th c.AD+]: (βαίνω, βηλός):— allowable to be trodden, probably of ground (opposed to ἱερός, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἢ πρὸς βεβήλοις ἢ πρὸς ἄλσεσιν θεῶν either on profane ground or.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence generally, permitted, καὶ βέβηλα καὶ κεκρυμμένα λόγια public, current, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βέβηλα permitted meats, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. of persons, unhallowed, ={ἀμύητος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; impure, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, uninitiated, τελετῆς [Refs 1st c.AD+]. adverb -λως[Refs 1st c.AD+]