King James Bible Dictionary

NAUGHT, noun Nothing.

Doth Job serve God for naught? Job 1:9.

Thou sellest thy people for naught Psalms 44:12.

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

Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Proverbs 1:25.

NAUGHT, adverb In no degree

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.

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

Things naught and things indifferent.

It is naught it is naught says the buyer. Proverbs 20:14.

NAUGHTILY, adverb nautily. Wickedly; corruptly.

NAUGHTINESS, noun Nautiness.

1. Badness; wickedness; evil principle or purpose.

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart. 1 Samuel 17:28.

2. Slight wickedness of children; perverseness; mischievousness.

, adjective Nauty.

1. Wicked; corrupt.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Proverbs 6:1.

2. Bad; worthless.

The other basket had very naughty figs. Jeremiah 24:1.

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

(Jeremiah 24:2). "The bad figs may have been such either from having decayed, and thus been reduced to a rotten condition, or as being the fruit of the sycamore, which contains a bitter juice" (Tristram, Nat. Hist.). The inferiority of the fruit is here referred to as an emblem of the rejected Zedekiah and his people.