خَبِيتٌ
Root: خبت
Full Definition
[The lawful, but small, supply of the means of subsistence is beneficial, but the large and unlawful is not beneficial]. Kh asked As respecting الخبيت in this verse; and the latter replied that the poet meant الخَبِيث; the former word being of the dial. of Kheyber: but Kh rejoined, “ If so, the poet would have said الكتير: it behooves you only to say that the people of Kheyber change ث into ت in some words: ” AM thinks that الخبيت in this verse is a mistranscription for الخَتِيت, which means the thing that is “ contemptible and bad, ” and is syn. with الخَسِيس.يَنْفَعُ الطَّيِّبُ القَلِيلُ مِنَ الرِّزْ قِ وَلَا يَنْفَعُ الكَثِيرُ الخَبِيتُ
2 It is also applied to a man; meaning as above; or Bad, corrupt, vitious, or depraved.
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