1. Malachi 1:12 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the word "profane" mean?

Malachi 1:12 (ESV)

12 But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.

To profane something is to treat something as common and ordinary, instead of special and holy. It means to lose the sense of special and extraordinary worth that something has, and regard it as having no special value.