בִּאישׁ
bi.ush (H0887)
bad
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# Biblical Hebrew: בִּאישׁ (bi.ush) — "Bad" The Hebrew word *bi.ush* appears 17 times throughout the biblical text with the fundamental meaning of "bad." This straightforward definition captures a core evaluative term used to describe negative quality or condition. The word functions as a basic descriptor in Hebrew, allowing speakers and writers to mark something as undesirable, defective, or morally/practically objectionable. With only 17 occurrences across the entire Bible, *bi.ush* represents a relatively infrequent lexical choice compared to other Hebrew terms expressing negativity. This limited frequency suggests the biblical writers had other preferred vocabulary for discussing badness, failure, or moral corruption—words that may have carried more specific theological weight or contextual nuance. The rarity of this particular term makes each occurrence potentially significant for understanding how ancient Hebrew distinguished different types or dimensions of badness. Without access to the specific biblical passages where *bi.ush* appears, we cannot determine its precise contextual range—whether it applied primarily to physical conditions (spoiled food, damaged objects), relational matters, or abstract qualities. The data confirms only that biblical writers recognized this word as a usable category for negative evaluation, though they evidently preferred other vocabulary more frequently when discussing the multifaceted problems, evils, and corruptions central to biblical narratives
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Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.” ’ ”
The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”
When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.