בַּדbad
Plural
Pronunciation: bad · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H907
Meanings
a. empty, idle talk (Job 11:3; Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:30)
b. empty talkers, praters, concrete (Isaiah 44:25; Jeremiah 50:36)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Job 11:3 Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?
- Job 41:12 “I want to emphasize Leviathan’s limbs and its enormous strength and graceful form.
- Isaiah 16:6 We have heard about proud Moab— about its pride and arrogance and rage. But all that boasting has disappeared.
- Isaiah 44:25 I expose the false prophets as liars and make fools of fortune-tellers. I cause the wise to give bad advice, thus proving them to be fools.
- Jeremiah 48:30 I know about his insolence,” says the Lord, “but his boasts are empty— as empty as his deeds.
- Jeremiah 50:36 The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).