16 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bad' in the Bible

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The WickedInvestigatingOutcry

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Verse ConceptsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightSpeech, DivineWarning IndividualsDirect Communication Through Dreams

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsPeople Possibly Doing EvilPowerHurtParents Being Wronghurting

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

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 Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

Verse ConceptsGesturesOld Age, DisabilitiesClothingChildren, needs ofIntimacyOld Age, Attainment OfOrnamentsPrejudiceRobesChildren, Parents LovePartialityHope For Old PeopleFine ClothesMulti ColouredThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteLove For ChildrenColor

and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean in flesh, and they stand near the kine on the edge of the River,

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsRiver BanksThin BodiesRiver Nile

and the kine of bad appearance and lean in flesh eat up the seven kine of fair appearance, and fat -- and Pharaoh awaketh.

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsAnimals EatingThin Bodies

and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean in flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsUnique CreaturesBad Items

'And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsFat AnimalsAnimals Eating

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

and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin Bodies

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

Verse ConceptsFrugality

And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfFive YearsPeople ProvidingAvoiding Poverty

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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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
κακός 
Kakos 
Usage: 46

σαπρός 
Sapros 
Usage: 1

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