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2.
(
7
, 3693), “of place, behind, after,” is rendered “backside” in Rev.
5:1;
KJV
(
RV
, “back”). See
BEHIND
.
BACKBITER, BACKBITING
(
1
, 2637), a “backbiter,” and
(
1
, 2636),
“backbiting,” are formed from
, “against,” and
, “to speak.”
is used in
Rom. 1:30.¶
is translated “evil speaking” in 1 Pet. 2:1, “backbiting” in 2 Cor.
12:20.¶
Note:
The corresponding verb
the
RV
translates “speak against,” in its five
occurrences, Jas. 4:11 (three times); 1 Pet. 2:12, and 3:16; v, “speak evil,” in all the
passages except 1 Pet. 2:12.¶
For
BADE
see
BID
BAD
1.
(
, 2556) indicates the lack in a person or thing of those qualities which
should be possessed; it means “bad in character” (a) morally, by way of thinking, feeling
or acting, e.g., Mark 7:21, “thoughts”; 1 Cor. 15:33, “company”; Col. 3:5, “desire”; 1
Tim. 6:10, “all kinds of evil”; 1 Pet. 3:9, “evil for evil”; (b) in the sense of what is
injurious or baneful, e.g., the tongue as “a restless evil,” Jas. 3:8; “evil beasts,” Titus
1:12; “harm,” Acts 16:28; once it is translated “bad,” 2 Cor. 5:10. It is the opposite of
, “good.” See
EVIL
,
HARM
,
ILL
,
NOISOME
,
WICKED
.
2.
(
$
, 4190), connected with
, “labor,” expresses especially the
“active form of evil,” and is practically the same in meaning as (b), under No. 1. It is
used, e.g., of thoughts, Matt. 15:19 (cf.
, in Mark 7:21); of speech, Matt. 5:11 (cf.
, in 1 Pet. 3:10); of acts 2 Tim. 4:18. Where
and
are put together,
is always put first and signifies “bad in character, base,”
, “bad in effect,
malignant”: see 1 Cor. 5:8, and Rev. 16:2.
has a wider meaning,
a
stronger meaning.
8
alone is used of Satan and might well be translated “the
malignant one,” e.g., Matt. 5:37 and five times in 1 John (2:13-14; 3:12; 5:18-19,
RV
); of
demons, e.g., Luke 7:21. Once it is translated bad, Matt. 22:10. See
EVIL
,
GRIEVOUS
,
HARM
,
LEWD
,
MALICIOUS
,
WICKED
.
3.
(
$
, 4550), “corrupt, rotten” (akin to
, “to rot”), primarily, of
vegetable and animal substances, expresses what is of poor quality, unfit for use, putrid.
It is said of a tree and its fruit, Matt. 7:17-18; 12:33; Luke 6:43; of certain fish, Matt.
13:48 (here translated “bad”); of defiling speech, Eph. 4:29. See
CORRUPT
.¶
BAG
1.
(
, 1101), from
, “a tongue,” and
, “to
tend,” was, firstly, “a case” in which to keep the mouthpiece of wind instruments;
secondly, “a small box” for any purpose, but especially a “casket or purse,” to keep
money in. It is used of the “bag” which Judas carried, John 12:6; 13:29; in the Sept. of 2