Naught

Naught - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NAUGHT, n. Nothing.

Doth Job serve God for naught? Job 1.

Thou sellest thy people for naught. Psa 44.

To set at naught, to slight, to disregard or despise.

Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Prov 1.

NAUGHT, adv. In no degree

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.

NAUGHT, a. Bad; worthless; of no value or account.

Things naught and things indifferent.

It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer. Prov 20.

Naughtiness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NAUGHTINESS, n. Nautiness.

1. Badness; wickedness; evil principle or purpose.

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart. 1 Sam 17.

2. Slight wickedness of children; perverseness; mischievousness.

, a. Nauty.

1. Wicked; corrupt.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Prov 6.

2. Bad; worthless.

The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer 24.

3. Mischievous; perverse; froward; as a naughty child. It is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children.

not, no'-ti, nes: In the sense of bad, worthless, worthlessness, the words in the King James Version represent the Hebrew ra`, changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "bad" (2Ki 2:19; Pr 20:14; Jer 24:2), roa`, retained in the Revised Version (British and American) "naughtiness" (1Sa 17:28), hawwah, rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) in Pr 11:6 "iniquity," and in 17:4 "mischievous." In Pr 6:12, "naughty person," literally, "man of Belial," is in the Revised Version (British and American) "worthless person." In the New Testament, "superfluity of naughtiness" in Jas 1:21 (for kakia) becomes margin the Revised Version (British and American) overflowing of wickedness," margin "malice," and in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:10, the King James Version's "naughty generation" (poneros) is made into "by birth .... evil."

James Orr