NAUGHT.Naught is nothing (from A.S. na not, and wiht a whit or a thing). Sometimes the spelling became nought (perhaps under the influence of ought). In the earliest editions of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] there is no difference between naught and nought; but in the ed. of 1638 a difference was introduced, naught being used in 2Ki 2:19, Pro 20:14, because there the meaning is bad; nought everywhere else, but with the meaning worthlessness. This distinction was preserved by Scrivener, in his Cambr. Par. Bible, and is found in most modern English Bibles.<\/p>\n
Naughty, however, is simply worthless, as Jer 24:2 very naughty figs. But naughtiness always means wickedness, as Pro 11:6 transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.<\/p>\n
Naught NAUGHT.Naught is nothing (from A.S. na not, and wiht a whit or a thing). Sometimes the spelling became nought (perhaps under the influence of ought). In the earliest editions of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] there is no difference between naught and nought; but in the ed. of 1638 a difference was introduced, naught being … Continue reading “Naught”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}