KJV dictionary & concordance
Hurtful, noxious, destructive, or offensive.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 91:3
Complete exact-word concordance
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Surely he shall deliuer thee from the snare of the fouler: and from the noisome pestilence.
¶ If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
¶ If I cause noisome beastes to passe through the land, and they spoile it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through because of the beasts:
1611 marginal noteOr, bereaue.
For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
For thus saith the LORD God, How much more when I send my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem; the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
1611 marginal noteOr, also when.
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
And the first went, and powred out his viall vpon the earth, and there fell a noysome and grieuous sore vpon the men which had the marke of the beast, and vpon them which worshipped his image.
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Historical English dictionary sources
annoying, noxious, hurtful.
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive.
