bad (bluster) · Rightly

Meaning

Empty talk, idle talk, liar, lie

How it's translated

empty boasts its 2
empty boasts your 1
limbs its 1
empty talkers 1
the empty talkers 1
bars his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Job 2
Isaiah 2
Jeremiah 2
Hosea 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Job 41:12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Isaiah 16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Isaiah 44:25That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Jeremiah 48:30I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah 50:36A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
Hosea 11:6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Hebrew dictionary

בַּד bad · bluster

empty talk, idle talk, liar, lie

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “bluster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BLUS'TER, verb intransitive

[Probably allied to blaze, blast.]

To be loud, noisy or swaggering; to bully; to purr; to swagger; as a turbulent or boasting person.
To roar, and be tumultuous, as wind; to be boisterous; to be windy;; to hurry.

All definitions and other forms of “bluster”

BLUS'TER, noun

Noise; tumult; boasting; boisterousness; turbulence; roar of a tempest; violent wind; hurry; any irregular noise and tumult from wind, or from vanity.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.