בִּאוּשׁ
biʼûwsh · H873 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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evil, wicked
State in which humans are wicked and immoral in character
ExamplesEzra 4:12 let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city and are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- רַע raʻ · H7451 · bad, evil, wicked
- רַע is the most common Hebrew word for 'bad, evil' and is semantically very close to בִּאוּשׁ. Both describe negative quality, though רַע has broader usage spanning moral, physical, and qualitative badness.
Contrasting words 1 word
- טוֹב ṭôwb · H2896 · good, nice, beautiful
- טוֹב ('good') is the standard lexical antonym of בִּאוּשׁ ('bad'), representing the opposite quality or evaluation in Hebrew lexicography.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κακός kakós · G2556 · bad, evil, harmful
- κακός is the standard Greek adjective for 'bad, evil' and serves as a direct translation equivalent for בִּאוּשׁ, which means 'bad.' Both convey negative quality or moral deficiency.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evil002001002007
- Ezra 4:12 has the letter to King Artaxerxes report, “the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city and are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H873. bish [בִּאישׁ K§ 11, 8b)] adjective bad (so Egyptian Aramaic Cooke75. 2; בִּישׁ ᵑ7,…
[בִּאישׁ K§ 11, 8b)] adjective bad (so Egyptian Aramaic Cooke75. 2; בִּישׁ ᵑ7, Syriac ); — feminine singular emphatic וּבִאישְׁתָּא Ezr 4:12 rebellious and bad city (not בִּאוּשְׁתָָּא, see Baern.).
בָּתַר בָּאתַר, see אֲתַר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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