Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Foul
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Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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ἀκάθαρτος
akáthartos · ak-ath'-ar-tos
2 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specially, (demonic))
Strong's KJV usage: :--foul, unclean.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 9:25Strong's last: Revelation 18:2
Open full G169 profile →χειμών
cheimṓn · khi-mone'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter
Strong's KJV usage: :--tempest, foul weather, winter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 16:3Strong's last: Matthew 16:3
Open full G5494 profile →חָמַר
châmar · khaw-mar'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch
Strong's KJV usage: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 16:16Strong's last: Job 16:16
Open full H2560 profile →רָפַשׂ
râphas · raw-fas'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to trample, i.e. roil water
Strong's KJV usage: foul, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 34:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:18
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H2560
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
H7515
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
G5494
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
G169
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
G169
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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foul
FOUL, adjective
1. Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.
My face is foul with weeping. Job 16:16.
2. Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.
3. Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.
4. Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.
5. Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.
6. Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.
7. Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.
Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit. Revelation 18:2.
8. Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.
9. Hateful; ugly; loathsome.
Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.
10. Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
11. Coarse; gross.
They are all for rank and foul feeding.
12. Full of gross humors or impurities.
You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.
13. Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul
14. Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul
15. Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.
16. Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.
17. Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.
1. To fall foul is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.
2. To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.
FOUL, verb transitive To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands. Ezekiel 34:18.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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