涜

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blaspheme

On-Yomi: トク

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 26-4-2007(73): The church is selling holy water for the faithful, but if you dare to say its tap water, they'd tell you you were blaspheming.

2) [Meconium] 12-11-2009(4): During the Wedding at Cana, the Son of God had some people come up to complain after he performed his miracle. "This wine is terrible! Are you trying to sell me watered-down wine?" He replied, "It's a wedding, for God's sake, the wine is free, so stop complaining." The dissatisfied guest retorted, "Hey, don't blaspheme!" Jesus Christ just rolled his eyes and, under his breath, uttered his own name in vain.

3) [Harpagornes] 14-10-2011(2): "Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there…" Mathew 21:12. In the Japanese version of this event, Jesus drives out the blasphemers by throwing water at them. Cf. 売 sell (#323 売).

4) [dukelexon] 7-4-2008(1): Crooks blaspheme the free-market system by trying to sell something as readily availabile (in Westernized countries, at least) as water. Don't spend $4 bucks for a plastic bottle of what you can get from your tap!

5) [mantixen] 15-2-2007(1): Long ago people would blaspheme you for trying to sell water.

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