2001 Translation

PHAULA, phaula

Sounds Like: FOW-lah

Translations: bad, evil, worthless, vile, corrupt, base, a bad thing, evil things, badly, poorly

From the root: ΦΑΥΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb

Explanation: This word describes something as bad, worthless, or vile. As an adjective, it can modify nouns, indicating their poor quality or moral depravity. As an adverb, it describes an action performed poorly or in a bad manner. In the provided examples, it appears to be used as a neuter plural adjective meaning 'bad things' or 'worthless things' when referring to 'words'.

Inflection: Neuter, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Plural; or Feminine, Nominative or Vocative, Singular; or Adverbial form

Strong’s number: G5337 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 22:8
• Job — 6:3, 6:25
• John — 3:20, 5:29

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 40:285
• Book Two — 40:285

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 8:229

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:3, 0:9, 0:11

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Proverbs — 22:8
• Job — 6:3, 6:25

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 3:20, 5:29

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΑΥΛΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΦΑΥΛΑΙ — bad, evil, worthless, vile, corrupt, a bad thing, an evil thing
• ΦΑΥΛΑΙΣ — (to) bad, (to) evil, (to) worthless, (to) base
• ΦΑΥΛΗ — bad, evil, worthless, vile, a bad, an evil, a worthless, a vile
• ΦΑΥΛΗΝ — bad, worthless, evil, base, a bad (thing/person)
• ΦΑΥΛΗΣ — bad, evil, worthless, vile, base, a bad, an evil
• ΦΑΥΛΟ — bad, evil, worthless, vile, base, mean, a bad thing, an evil thing
• ΦΑΥΛΟΙ — bad, evil, worthless, base, corrupt, bad ones, evil ones, worthless ones
• ΦΑΥΛΟΙΣ — evil, bad, worthless, vile, base, corrupt, a worthless one, an evil one
• ΦΑΥΛΟΝ — evil, bad, worthless, vile, an evil thing, a bad thing
• ΦΑΥΛΟΣ — bad, evil, worthless, base, corrupt, a bad, an evil, a worthless, a base, a corrupt
• ΦΑΥΛΟΤΑΤΟΙ — worst, most worthless, most evil, the worst, the most worthless, the most evil
• ΦΑΥΛΟΤΑΤΟΝ — worst, most worthless, most evil, the worst, a worst thing
• ΦΑΥΛΟΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most worthless, most base, most vile, most evil, most bad
• ΦΑΥΛΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the worst, of the most worthless, of the most base, of the most evil, of the most vile
• ΦΑΥΛΟΥ — of bad, of evil, of worthless, of base, of vile, of common
• ΦΑΥΛΟΥΣ — bad, evil, worthless, vile, a bad, an evil, a worthless, a vile
• ΦΑΥΛΟΥΣΟΥ̓ — bad, base, worthless, evil, a bad one, a worthless one, an evil one
• ΦΑΥΛΩ — to the bad, for the bad, to the evil, for the evil, to the worthless, for the worthless
• ΦΑΥΛΩΝ — of evil, of bad, of worthless, of base, of depraved, of corrupt
• ΦΑΥΛΩΣ — badly, poorly, wickedly, corruptly, meanly, contemptibly

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