6 occurrences

'Worthless' in the Bible

Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartComplaintsSorrow

Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle the fattened animals and lambs along with all that was good. They were not willing to completely destroy them, but they did completely destroy everything that was worthless and inferior.

Verse ConceptsFatnessCovetousness, Example OfAnnihilation

Now, be aware of this and consider what you should do. Calamity is being planned against our master and against his entire household. He's such a worthless person that no one can talk to him."

Verse ConceptsTemperament

Please, your majesty, don't pay attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he's just like his name. Nabal is his name and folly is his constant companion. But I, your servant, didn't see your majesty's young men whom you sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

At this point, all the wicked and worthless men of the group who had gone with David answered, "Because they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil that we recovered, except that each person may take his wife and his children and go."

Verse ConceptsNot With PeopleDividing Plunder

Bible Theasaurus

Despicable (12 instances)
Slimy (2 instances)
Unworthy (16 instances)
Worthless (150 instances)
Wretched (22 instances)

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