From [[Middle English]] ''blasfemen'', from [[Old French]] ''blasfemer'', from [[Late Latin]] ''blasphemare'', from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''blasphemein'', from ''blaptein'', "to injure", and ''pheme'', "reputation". Blasphemy, which was opposed to "euphemy" (see [[euphemism]]), and has also given "blame" from Old French ''blasmer''. This may be related to the Talmudic use of "nokev" (to pierce) as the source of the laws of Blasphemy. (Mishnah Sanh. vii. 5)
==Blasphemy in Jewish Law(for Jews)==
The Jewish law is based on the case of the blasphemer, one of the mixed multitude that went out of Egypt with the children of Israel (Lev. xxiv. 10-23). He blasphemed the name of the L-rd and cursed; was sentenced to be taken without the camp; and it was decreed that all who heard him should lay their hands upon his head, and that all the congregation should stone him. The judgment in his case was formulated in a general law in verses 15 and 16.
