Foul
Foul
foul (, raphas; , akathartos): The verb to foul (defile) occurs as the translation of raphas, to trample or muddle (streams) (Eze 32:2; Eze 34:18); of hamar, to burn, to be red (Job 16:16, My face is foul with weeping, the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version, margin red); of mirpas, a treading (Eze 34:19). The adjective is the translation of akathartos, unclean, impure, wicked (Mar 9:25; Rev 18:2, foul spirit, the Revised Version (British and American) unclean), and of cheimon, winter, stormy or foul weather (Mat 16:3). the Revised Version (British and American) has The rivers shall become foul (Isa 19:6) instead of the King James Version They shall turn the rivers far away, the English Revised Version The rivers shall stink.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Foul
denotes “unclean, impure” (a, negative, and kathairo, “to purify”), (a) ceremonially, e.g., Act 10:14, Act 10:28; (b) morally, always, in the Gospels, of unclean spirits; it is translated “foul” in the AV of Mar 9:25; Rev 18:2, but always “unclean” in the RV. Since the word primarily had a ceremonial significance, the moral significance is less prominent as applied to a spirit, than when poneros, “wicked,” is so applied. Cp. akatharsia, “uncleanness.” See UNCLEAN.
Note: In Rev 17:4 the best mss. have this word in the plural, RV, “the unclean things” (akathartes, “filthiness,” in some mss.).
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Foul
Rev 18:2 (a) In this way GOD reveals His utter hatred for the wicked practices and the evil beliefs which prevail in those great world systems of religion which are described as Babylon. In these religious systems every evil known to man prospers and is promoted. Men and women are held as slaves in darkened buildings. Many are not permitted to even speak. They are bound to permanent silence. Others have physical afflictions imposed upon them in the name of GOD. History reveals the burnings, the tortures, the imprisonments, and the lustful practices of these great religions. The followers are kept in abject slavery, and therefore the verse describes the situation of the wicked leaders as being in a cage and a prison cell. Luther and others were blessed of GOD in breaking open many of these prison cells, and setting great multitudes free from the tyranny, the wickedness, the evil of the monster that held them captives.