NOISOME.Noisome is literally annoy-some. The adj. means offensive, injurious in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ; the word is now rather rarely used, but when it is used it means loathsome rather than hurtful.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
noi?sum (הוּה, hawwāh, רע, ra‛; κακός, kakós): ?Noisome? from ?annoy? (annoysome) has in Bible English the meaning of ?evil,? ?hurtful,? not of ?offensive? or ?loathsome.? It is the translation of hawwāh, ?mischief,? ?calamity? (Psa_91:3, ?noisome pestilence,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?deadly?); of ra‛, a common word for ?evil? (Eze_14:15, Eze_14:21), ?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'shāh, ?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? (Rev_16:2), ?a noisome and grievous sore.? ?Noisome? also occurs in Apocrypha (2 Macc 9:9) as the translation of barúnō, ?to make heavy,? ?oppress,? where it seems to have the meaning of ?loathsome.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.