International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
NAUGHT; NAUGHTY; NAUGHTINESSnot, no'-ti, nes: In the sense of bad, worthless, worthlessness, the words in the King James Version represent the Hebrew ra`, changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "bad" (2 Kings 2:19 Proverbs 20:14 Jeremiah 24:2), roa`, retained in the Revised Version (British and American) "naughtiness" (1 Samuel 17:28), hawwah, rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) in Proverbs 11:6 "iniquity," and in 17:4 "mischievous." In Proverbs 6:12, "naughty person," literally, "man of Belial," is in the Revised Version (British and American) "worthless person." In the New Testament, "superfluity of naughtiness" in James 1:21 (for kakia) becomes margin the Revised Version (British and American) overflowing of wickedness," margin "malice," and in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:10, the King James Version's "naughty generation" (poneros) is made into "by birth.... evil."
James Orr
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Naughty figs
(Jeremiah 24:2). "The bad figs may have been such either from having decayed, and thus been reduced to a rotten condition, or as being the fruit of the sycamore, which contains a bitter juice" (Tristram, Nat. Hist.). The inferiority of the fruit is here referred to as an emblem of the rejected Zedekiah and his people.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
superl.) Having little or nothing.
2. (superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing.
3. (superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked.
4. (superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Strong's Hebrew
1942. havvah -- desire, chasm, destruction... greed (1). calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous thing, naughtiness,
naughty,
perverse thing,. From hava' (in the sense of eagerly
... /hebrew/1942.htm - 6k 1100. beliyyaal -- worthlessness
... 1), wicked (3), worthless (18), worthless one (1). Belial, evil, naughty,
ungodly men, wicked. From bliy and ya'al; without profit ...
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