Lexicon bad: empty, idle talk Original Word: בַּדִּיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: bad Phonetic Spelling: (bad) Short Definition: boasts NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionempty, idle talk NASB Translationboasters (1), boasts (1), idle boasts (2), oracle priests (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs III. [ בַּד] noun masculine only Plural בַּדִּים. a. empty, idle talk (Phoenician CIS3, 6 listen not to בדנם = Hebrew בַּדֵּיהֶם; compare  vain talk), especially with collateral idea of imaginary pretensions or claims: Job 11:3 בַּדֶּיךָ מְתִיםיַחֲרִישׁוּ thy idle talk brings men to silence ("" וַתִּלְעַג), Isaiah 16:6 (of Moab) לֹא כֵן בַּדָּיו his boastings are not right (unfounded), hence Jeremiah 48:30. b. concrete empty talkers, praters (compare Late Hebrew בַּדָּאָה, Syriac  , liar), of false prophets, Isaiah 44:25; Jeremiah 50:36.
Strong's liar, lie From bada'; a brag or lie; also a liar -- liar, lie. see HEBREW bada' |
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