What Does “Profane” Mean in the Bible?
To treat something holy without respect, or to use it for something else. King Antiochus profaned the Temple of Jerusalem.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Maccabees 1:54
What the Bible says
1 Maccabees 1:54
On the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “profanar”; 1 Maccabees 4:36-48