Foul
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
(2): ( superl.) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
(3): ( v. t.) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
(4): ( superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; - opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
(5): ( n.) A bird.
(6): ( superl.) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
(7): ( superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
(8): ( n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
(9): ( superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; - said of the weather, sky, etc.
(10): ( v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
(11): ( v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
(12): ( v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
(13): ( v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
(14): ( v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
(15): ( superl.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
(16): ( superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.
(17): ( superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
(18): ( n.) In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.
King James Dictionary [2]
FOUL, a.
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 .
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 .
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, 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 .
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
denotes "unclean, impure" (a, negative, and kathairo, "to purify"), (a) ceremonially, e.g., Acts 10:14,28; (b) morally, always, in the Gospels, of unclean spirits; it is translated "foul" in the AV of Mark 9:25; Revelation 18:2 , but always "unclean" in the RV. Since the word primarily had a ceremonial significance, the moral significance is less prominent as applied to a spirit, than when poneros, "wicked," is so applied. Cp. akatharsia, "uncleanness." See Unclean.
Revelation 17:4
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Revelation 18:2 (a) In this way GOD reveals His utter hatred for the wicked practices and the evil beliefs which prevail in those great world systems of religion which are described as Babylon. In these religious systems every evil known to man prospers and is promoted. Men and women are held as slaves in darkened buildings. Many are not permitted to even speak. They are bound to permanent silence. Others have physical afflictions imposed upon them in the name of GOD. History reveals the burnings, the tortures, the imprisonments, and the lustful practices of these great religions. The followers are kept in abject slavery, and therefore the verse describes the situation of the wicked leaders as being in a cage and a prison cell. Luther and others were blessed of GOD in breaking open many of these prison cells, and setting great multitudes free from the tyranny, the wickedness, the evil of the monster that held them captives.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
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."
