bad denotes boastful, empty speech, especially when linked with pride, false claims, or mocking.

The clearly isolated uses portray boastful or empty speech: it is joined to Moab's pride and fury, called false alongside arrogance, and addressed as the speech accompanying mockery. Other supplied verses contain the form in clauses about diviners or a covenant, but the translation does not isolate its specific contribution there.

1. Boastful or empty speech · dominant

   In Isaiah 16:6 the plural construct form occurs in a clause about Moab's excessive pride, fury, and speech that the APB renders "it is his bluster." In Jeremiah 48:30 it stands with arrogance and false boastings, while Job 11:3 addresses a person's speech before adding, "Yet you mock."

   Isaiah 16:6Jeremiah 48:30Job 11:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "bluster" in Isaiah 16:6 and "boastings" in Jeremiah 48:30. In Isaiah 44:25, Jeremiah 50:36, and Job 41:4, its whole-verse translation does not make a specific English rendering of the term identifiable.