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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Byword \By"word`\, n. [AS. b["i]word; b["i], E. by + word.] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps. xliv. 14 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: byword n : a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: {proverb}, {adage}, {saw}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: By-word Hebrew _millah_ (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew _mashal_ (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. 7:20, the Hebrew _sheninah_ is used In Jer. 24:9 it is rendered "taunt."
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