Lexicon phaulos: worthless, bad Original Word: φαῦλος, η, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phaulos Phonetic Spelling: (fow'-los) Short Definition: worthless, wicked, base Definition: worthless, wicked, base. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionworthless, bad NASB Translationbad (3), evil (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5337: φαῦλοςφαῦλος, φαύλῃ, φαῦλον (akin to German faul and flau), easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account; ethically, bad, wicked, base ( Theognis, (?), Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch): James 3:16; φαῦλον τί λέγειν περί τίνος, Titus 2:8; φαῦλα πράσσειν ( R. V. to do ill), John 3:20; τά φαῦλα πράσσειν opposed to τά ἀγαθά ποιεῖν, John 5:29; φαῦλον (opposed to ἀγαθόν πράσσειν, Romans 9:11 L T Tr WH; 2 Corinthians 5:10 T Tr text WH. (See Trench, Synonyms, § lxxxiv.)
Strong's evil. Apparently a primary word; "foul" or "flawy", i.e. (figuratively) wicked -- evil. |
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