33 occurrences

'Bad' in the Bible

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Verse ConceptsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightSpeech, DivineWarning IndividualsDirect Communication Through Dreams

I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: ‘Watch yourself. Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsPeople Possibly Doing EvilPowerHurtParents Being Wronghurting

These are the family records of Jacob.At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.

Verse ConceptsBad Items

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTurned To BloodDeath Of CreaturesUnable To Do Other ThingsRiver Nile

When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewelry.

Verse ConceptsMourningPeople Stripping Off

He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.”

Verse ConceptsGood Or BadNot Redeemed

Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

Verse ConceptsDiscontentSpying

If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the Lord’s command, to do anything good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the Lord says.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTGoldSupplied With MoneySpeaking The Word God Gives

and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

Verse ConceptsCoinageAvoid DivorceFine As Penalty

Since every good thing the Lord your God promised you has come about, so He will bring on you every bad thing until He has annihilated you from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsReliabilityThreateningsGod Will Kill His People

Then Saul swore to her by the Lord: “As surely as the Lord lives, nothing bad will happen to you because of this.”

Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.

Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfGrudgesHatredLove, And The WorldIndividuals Being SilentNamed SistersHating Individuals

Your servant thought: May the word of my lord the king bring relief, for my lord the king is able to discern the good and the bad like the Angel of God. May the Lord your God be with you.”

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfKnowledge Of Good And EvilAngels, DescriptionThe Angel Of GodGod Be With YouLike Angels

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? I have bad news for you.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Even though our lord can see that the city’s location is good, the water is bad and the land unfruitful.”

Verse ConceptsBad WaterFamily ProblemsBitterness

Then Elisha said, “Get some meal.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Serve it for the people to eat.” And there was nothing bad in the pot.

Verse ConceptsFoodMiracles, Responses Topot

He was hired, so that I would be intimidated, do as he suggested, sin, and get a bad reputation, in order that they could discredit me.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationFear Of EnemiesOvercoming

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

Do not be in a hurry; leave his presence, and don’t persist in a bad cause, since he will do whatever he wants.

Verse ConceptsAuthorityTurning Against MenThe Presence Of God

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeNot Swearing OathsClean And Unclean

By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating butter and honey.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfButterHoneyAge Of AccountabilityRich FoodRejection

For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyRejectionParents Being Wrongmanhood

Tell us the coming events,then we will know that you are gods.Indeed, do something good or bad,then we will be in awe and perceive.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of FuturePredicting The FutureGod Doing GoodGood Or BadDo Good!No Help In Other GodsThe FutureEverything Happening For A Reason

One basket contained very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they were inedible.

Verse ConceptsBad Items

The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs! The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are extremely bad, so bad they are inedible.”

Verse ConceptsLooking And Seeing

“But as for the bad figs, so bad they are inedible, this is what the Lord says: in this way I will deal with king Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of IsraelBad Items

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to send against them sword, famine, and plague and will make them like rotten figs that are inedible because they are so bad.

Verse ConceptsFamine Coming From GodBad Items

About Damascus:Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.

Verse ConceptsNewsRestlessnessSeaSea, Metaphorical ReferencesAnxiety And Feardamascusreassurance

Bible Theasaurus

Badly (29 instances)
Badness (5 instances)
Decayed (8 instances)
Defective (9 instances)
Dreadful (25 instances)
Forged (7 instances)
Horrible (32 instances)
Horrid (2 instances)
Regretful (1 instance)
Sorry (33 instances)
Spoiled (76 instances)
Tough (2 instances)
Unfit (5 instances)
Unsound (2 instances)

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