Noisome
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"evil," is translated "noisome" in Revelation 16:2 . See Bad.
King James Dictionary [2]
Noisome a.
1. Noxious to health hurtful mischievous unwholesome insalubrious destructive as noisome winds noisome effluvia or miasmata noisome pestilence. 2. Noxious injurious. 3. Offensive to the smell or other senses disgusting fetid.
Foul breath is noisome.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( a.) Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
(2): ( a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
NOISOME. ‘Noisome’ is literally ‘annoy-some.’ The adj. means ‘offensive,’ ‘injurious’ in AV [Note: Authorized Version.]; the word is now rather rarely used, but when it is used it means ‘loathsome’ rather than ‘hurtful.’
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
noi´sum ( הוּה , hawwāh , רע , ra‛ ; κακός , kakós ): "Noisome" from "annoy" ( annoysome ) has in Bible English the meaning of "evil," "hurtful," not of "offensive" or "loathsome." It is the translation of hawwāh , "mischief," "calamity" ( Psalm 91:3 , "noisome pestilence," the Revised Version (British and American) "deadly"); of ra‛ , a common word for "evil" ( Ezekiel 14:15 , Ezekiel 14:21 ), "noisome beasts" (the Revised Version (British and American) "evil"). It occurs also in Job 31:40 the King James Version margin as the translation of bo'shāh , "noisome weeds," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "cockle," as in the King James Version margin; of kakos , "evil," "bad" ( Revelation 16:2 ), "a noisome and grievous sore." "Noisome" also occurs in Apocrypha (2 Macc 9:9) as the translation of barúnō , "to make heavy," "oppress," where it seems to have the meaning of "loathsome."
