Lexical Summary phaulos: worthless, bad Original Word: φαῦλοςTransliteration: phaulos Phonetic Spelling: (fow'-los) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: worthless, bad Meaning: worthless, bad Strong's Concordance evil. Apparently a primary word; "foul" or "flawy", i.e. (figuratively) wicked -- evil. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5337: φαῦλοςφαῦλος, φαύλῃ, φαῦλον (akin to German faul andflau), easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account; ethically, bad, wicked, base (Theognis, (?), Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch): James 3:16; φαῦλον τί λέγειν περί τίνος, Titus 2:8; φαῦλα πράσσειν (R. V. to do ill), John 3:20; τά φαῦλα πράσσειν opposed to τά ἀγαθά ποιεῖν, John 5:29; φαῦλον (opposed to ἀγαθόν πράσσειν, Romans 9:11 L T Tr WH; 2 Corinthians 5:10 T Tr text WH. (See Trench, Synonyms, § lxxxiv.) |
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