Foul
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foul ( רפשׂ , rāphas ; ἀκάθαρτος , akáthartos ): The verb "to foul" (defile) occurs as the translation of rāphas , "to trample" or "muddle" (streams) ( Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 34:18 ); of ḥāmar , "to burn," "to be red" ( Job 16:16 , "My face is foul with weeping," the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version, margin "red"); of mirpās , "a treading" ( Ezekiel 34:19 ). The adjective is the translation of akathartos , "unclean," "impure," "wicked" ( Mark 9:25; Revelation 18:2 , "foul spirit," the Revised Version (British and American) "unclean"), and of cheimō̇n , "winter," "stormy or foul weather" ( Matthew 16:3 ). the Revised Version (British and American) has "The rivers shall become foul" ( Isaiah 19:6 ) instead of the King James Version "They shall turn the rivers far away," the English Revised Version "The rivers shall stink."
