Easton's Bible Dictionary Naughty figs (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. Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (superl.) Having little or nothing. 2. (superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing. 3. (superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked. 4. (superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
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