1. bad, rotten, worthless — Rotten, bad, or worthless, describing something that has decayed or is of poor quality. Originally meaning physically 'rotten' or 'putrid' (of fruit, wood, etc.), in the New Testament it is used exclusively in figurative contexts as the opposite of 'good' (kalos/agathos). Jesus uses it in the tree-and-fruit metaphor: a bad tree produces bad fruit (Matt 7:17-18, Luke 6:43), and making a tree 'bad' yields bad fruit (Matt 12:33). It describes the worthless fish separated out in the dragnet parable (Matt 13:48), and Paul warns against 'rotten' (unwholesome, corrupt) speech in Ephesians 4:29. All four auto-clustered senses represent the same figurative meaning of 'bad/worthless/corrupt' applied to different referents (trees, fruit, fish, speech) with no genuine semantic distinction between clusters. 8×
AR["رَديءٍ","رَديئًا","رَديئَةٌ","رَدِيئًا","رَدِيئَ","رَدِيئَةً"]·ben["খারাপ","পচা"]·DE["faul","schlecht"]·EN["bad","rotten"]·FR["pourri"]·heb["נִמְבָזֶה","רָעִים","רָקוּב","רקֵב"]·HI["बुरअ","बुरेए-को","सड़ा","सध-हुअ"]·ID["busuk","yang-busuk"]·IT["marcio","sapros"]·jav["awon","awon:","bosok","busuk"]·KO["나쁘게","나쁜-것은","나콜","더러운","썬은"]·PT["má","ruins","torpe"]·RU["гнилое","гнилым","негодных","плохое","плохой"]·ES["corrompida","malo","malos","podrido"]·SW["baya","bovu","bovu;","mbaya","mbovu","mbovu,"]·TR["curuk","çürük","çürük,","çürük;","çürükleri"]·urd["برا","خراب","سڑا","نہ-پھر","پھل","گندی"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
σαπρός, ά, όν, (σήπω) rotten, putrid, Refs 6th c.BC+; of the lungs, diseased, Refs; of bone, carious, Refs; of wood, etc., rotten, ἱστίον Refs 5th c.BC+; πινακίσκος, φορμός, σχοινίον, Refs 4th c.BC+; τοῦ διατειχίσματος ἀνελόντι τὰ σ. Refs; of a house, σ. καὶ ῥέουσα καὶ καταπίπτουσα Telesp.27 H.; ἐλαῖαι Refs 6th c.BC+: especially, of fish that have been long in pickle, stale, rancid, τάριχος Refs…