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What Does “Naughty” Mean in the Bible?
In the King James Bible, “Naughty” means “wicked” in modern English. It is an archaic word from the 1611 KJV that has dropped out of everyday use.
What Was Lost
The moral bankruptcy dimension. When Proverbs called someone naughty, it meant they were spiritually empty -- reduced to nothing, morally zeroed out. Jeremiah's naughty figs were not playfully disobedient fruit but figs so rotten they were worthless, fit only for destruction. The word measured the distance between created purpose and actual condition.