faulem

Strong’sG5337

worthless, wicked, base

stem faul-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

φαῦλος, -η, -ον

[in LXX: Pr 22:8 (עַוְלָה) 29:9 (אֳבִיל), etc.;]

slight, worthless, of no account, both of persons and things in various shades of meaning (v. LS, s.v.), in NT, as freq. in cl., always with distinct moral reference (v. Ellic., Past. Epp., 203; Hort, Ja., 85; Tr., Syn., lxxxiv), worthless, bad: Jo 3:20, Tit 2:8, Ja 3:16; opp. to ἀγαθός (q.v.), Jo 5:29, Ro 9:11, II Co 5:10.†

SYN.: v.s. ἄθεσμος

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5337 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfow'-los

"foul" or "flawy", i.e. (figuratively) wicked

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesevil.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

φαῦλος, η, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+:— cheap, easy, slight, paltry, first found commonly in Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb φαύλωςRefs 4th c.BC+
I of things, easy, slight, φ. ἀθλήσας πόνον Refs 5th c.BC+; φαυλότατον ἔργον ''tis as easy as lying', Refs 5th c.BC+; οὔτοι βασιλέα φαῦλόν [ἐστι] κτανεῖν 'tis no slight matter to kill a king, Refs 5th c.BC+; νυκτὸς γὰρ οὔτι φ. ἐμβαλεῖν στρατόν no easy matter, Refs 4th c.BC+; φαῦλα ἐπιφέρειν bring paltry charges, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ φ. νικήσας ἔχω have gained petty victories, Refs 5th c.BC+; σύμμαχον Τροίᾳ μολόντα Ῥῆσον οὐ φαύλῳ τρόπῳ, i. e. with no trivial force, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb -λως εὑρεῖν, τυχεῖν,Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. ἐκφυγεῖν to get off easily, Refs; οὔτι φαύλως ἦλθε with no trivial force, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰς ἐλπίδας φ. ἔχειν to be slight, Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.2 simple, ordinary, δίαιτα Refs 5th c.BC+; but frequently with sense poor, indifferent, στρατιά Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀσπίδες, τείχισμα, παρασκευή, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb -λως, διατρίβειν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ Refs 5th c.BC+
I.3 mean, bad, πρῆξις NT+5th c.BC+evil, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ φ., opposed to τὰ ἀγαθά, Refs 5th c.BC+; τύχη φ., opposed to ἀγαθή, Refs 4th c.BC+; κομίσασθαι.. εἴτε ἀγαθὸν εἴτε φ., of rewards and punishments, NT+2nd c.AD+
II of persons, low in rank, mean, common, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ φαυλότατοι the commonest sort (of soldiers), Refs 5th c.BC+; [γάμος] ὁ ἐκ τῶν φαυλοτέρων, opposed to ἐκ μειζόνων, Refs 5th c.BC+; of outward looks, αἱ φαυλότεραι the plainer ones, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 inefficient, bad, διδάσκαλος Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ φ. καὶ τὸ μέσον καὶ τὸ πάνυ ἀκριβές the inefficient, the middling, and the perfect, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. αὐλητής, opposed to ἀγαθός, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to σπουδαῖος, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially in point of education and accomplishments, opposed to σοφός, οἱ γὰρ ἐν σοφοῖς φαῦλοι παρ᾽ ὄχλῳ μουσικώτεροι λέγειν Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ -ότεροι, opposed to to οἱ ξυνετώτεροι, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ φαυλότεροι γνώμηνRefs 5th c.BC+ (so in adverb, φαυλοτέρως πεπαιδευμένοι Refs; generally, inferior, Refs: with infinitive, φαῦλοι μάχεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. λέγειν, φ. διαλεχθῆναι, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 careless, thoughtless, indifferent, Refs 5th c.BC+ —especially in adverb, φαύλως ἐκρίνατε judged lightly, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. παραινεῖν off-hand, Refs; λόγισαι φαύλως μὴ ψήφοις ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ χειρός off-hand, roughly, Refs 5th c.BC+ (anapaest meter); φ. εἰπεῖν casually, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. φέρειν to bear lightly, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 in good sense, simple, unaffected, φαῦλον, ἄκομψον, τὰ μέγιστ᾽ ἀγαθόν Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -λως, παιδεύειν τινά by a very simple method, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 of health, etc., φαύλως ἔχειν to be ill, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. πράττειν to be in sorry plight, Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

bad3×evil3×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	faulos	faulas	faulem4×φαῦλον	faulois	faulais	fauleim2×φαῦλα
object accusative	faulon	faulan		fauloin	faulain
direct address vocative	faulor	faular		fauloir	faulair
of, belonging to genitive	faulou	faulau	fauleu	fauloiu	faulaiu	fauleiu
to, for dative	faulo	faula	faule	fauloi	faulai	faulei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

faulstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

faul is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

6 occurrences, every one of them listed

faulem“bad”subject or objectdirect singular4×

Romans 9:11… gennirantoiu mēde prassarantoiu tinem agathem ē faulem, hina tas kata eklogan prothesias tou …… or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of …

2 Corinthians 5:10… pros heim prassata, eite agathem eite faulem.… in the body, whether good or bad.

Titus 2:8… entrapiteia mēdenem echarōntos legarō peri nu faulem.… us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

James 3:16… kai eritheias, ekei akatastasias kai pantem faulem pragmem.… there will be disorder and every evil practice.

fauleim“evil”subject or objectdirect plural2×

John 3:20pantos gar tos fauleim prassarōntos misatō tem fōtem kai ouk …Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not …

John 5:29… eis anastasian zōau, tois de teim fauleim prassarantois eis anastasian krisiau.… life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.