The meaning of Naught; Naughty; Naughtiness in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

not, no'-ti, nes: In the sense of bad, worthless, worthlessness, the words in the King James Version represent the Hebrew ra', changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "bad" (II Kings 2:19; Proverbs 20:14; Jeremiah 24:2), roa', retained in the Revised Version (British and American) "naughtiness" (I Samuel 17:28), hawwah, rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) in Proverbs 11:6 "iniquity," and in Proverbs 17:4 "mischievous." In Proverbs 6:12, "naughty person," literally, "man of Belial," is in the Revised Version (British and American) "worthless person." In the New Testament, "superfluity of naughtiness" in James 1:21 (for kakia) becomes margin the Revised Version (British and American) overflowing of wickedness," margin "malice," and in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:10, the King James Version's "naughty generation" (poneros) is made into "by birth .... evil."

James Orr

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