III. [בַּד] noun masculine only Plural בַּדִּים.
\ \ a. empty, idle talk (Phoenician CIS3, 6 listen not to בדנם = Hebrew בַּדֵּיהֶם; compare vain talk), especially with collateral idea of imaginary pretensions or claims: [Job 11:3] בַּדֶּיךָ מְתִיםיַחֲרִישׁוּ thy idle talk brings men to silence (|| וַתִּלְעַג), [Isa 16:6] (of Moab) לֹא כֵן בַּדָּיו his boastings are not right (unfounded), hence [Jer 48:30].
\ \ b. concrete empty talkers, praters (compare Late Hebrew בַּדָּאָה, Syriac , liar), of false prophets, [Isa 44:25]; [Jer 50:36].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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