Bad
בִּאישׁStrong’s H0873biush (bi-ush)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Biush is the Aramaic word usually translated “evil”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.”
Meaning
- Evil, bad, be evil
How it's translated
- and evil 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
בִּאישׁ biush · bad
evil, bad, be evil Aramaic of ba.ash (בָּאַשׁ "to stink" H0887)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAD, adjective
[Heb. to perish or destroy]
- Ill; evil; opposed to good; a word of general use, denoting physical defects and moral faults, in men and things; as a bad man, a bad heart, a bad design, bad air, bad water, bad books.
- Vicious; corrupt; depraved, in a moral sense; as a bad life; a bad action.
- Unwholesome; as bad provisions.
- Unfortunate; unprosperous; as a bad state of affairs.
All definitions
- Unskillful; as a bad player.
- Small; poor; as a bad crop.
- Infirm; as a bad state of health.
- Feeble, corrupt, or oppressive; as a bad government.
- Hurtful; pernicious; as, fine print is bad for the eyes.
- Unfavorable; as a bad season.
- Poor; sterile; as a bad soil.
- Rough or muddy; as a bad road.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.