בַּד
bad · idle talk, boasting
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H907 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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bad (בַּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “idle talk, boasting”.
Empty talk, idle chatter; boasting or lies.
How to say it
bad
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Empty chatter, bragging; those who speak without basis.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- boasts ×2
- Shall your idle talk ×1
- about its limbs ×1
- against the babblers ×1
- empty talkers ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 11:3
Shall your idle talk silence men? Shall you mock, and there be none to put you to shame?
- Job 41:12
I will not keep silent about its limbs, or the account of its powers, or the grace of its bearing.
- Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud, his arrogance and his pride and his wrath; his boasts are not so.
- Isaiah 44:25
who frustrates the signs of the empty talkers, and drives mad diviners; who turns the wise backward, and their knowledge he makes foolish;
- Jeremiah 48:30
I know, declares YHWH, his wrath, and it is not so; his boasts have not done so.
- Jeremiah 50:36
A sword against the babblers, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed!