Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Noxious; harmful; dangerous; as, a noisome odor; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. 2. (a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia NOISOME noi'-sum (hawwah, ra`; kakos): "Noisome" from "annoy" (annoysome) has in Bible English the meaning of "evil," "hurtful," not of "offensive" or "loathsome." It is the translation of hawwah, "mischief," "calamity" (Psalm 91:3, "noisome pestilence," the Revised Version (British and American) "deadly"); of ra`, a common word for "evil" (Ezekiel 14:15, 21), "noisome beasts" (the Revised Version (British and American) "evil"). It occurs also in Job 31:40 the King James Version margin as the translation of bo'shah, "noisome weeds," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "cockle," as in the King James Version margin; of kakos, "evil," "bad" (Revelation 16:2), "a noisome and grievous sore." "Noisome" also occurs in Apocrypha (2 Maccabees 9:9) as the translation of baruno, "to make heavy," "oppress," where it seems to have the meaning of "loathsome." W. L. Walker

Multi-Version Concordance Noisome (7 Occurrences) Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. (KJV ASV WBS) Job 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (See JPS) Psalms 38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. (See JPS) Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (KJV JPS WBS) Ezekiel 14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: (KJV WBS) Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? (KJV WBS) Ezekiel 24:12 She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire. (See JPS)