Bad
בִּאישׁStrong’s H0887biush (bi-ush)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Biush is the Hebrew word usually translated “it stank”, “had made themselves odious” and “making odious me”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.”
Meaning
- Evil, bad, be evil
How it's translated
- and it stank 3
- they had made themselves odious 2
- by making odious me 1
- you have made stink 1
- and it will stink 1
- it stank 1
- it has made itself odious 1
- certainly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 5:21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 7:18And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 7:21And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:14And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- Exodus 16:20Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
- Exodus 16:24And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.