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# דִּבָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1681

**whispering** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

whispering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1681/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּבָּה: n.f. whispering, defamation, evil report [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1681/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. whispering, defamation, evil report (? as that which glides stealthily)—abs. ד׳ Nu 14:36; Pr 10:18; cstr. דִּבַּת Je 20:10 + 4 times; sf. דִּבָּֽתְךָ Pr 25:10 דִּבָּתָם Gn 37:2;— whispering ψ 31:14; Je 20:10 (Hi Hup De Gf VB; yet cf. Che ψ) defamation Pr 10:18 (c. הוציא). evil report, specif. a (true) report of evil doing Gn 37:2 (P) וַיָּבֵא אֶת־דִּבָּתָם רָעָה; cf. also Pr 25:10 & Ez 36:3 וַתֵּֽעֲלוּ עַל־שְׂפֵת לָשׁוֹן וְדִבַּת־עָ֑ם. unfavourable report of spies Nu 13:32; 14:36, 37 (all P & all c. תוֹצִיא; adj. רעה only 14:37).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] whispering (2); a bad report (2); (of) the bad report (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.18/#tree)

מְכַסֶּ֣ה שִׂ֭נְאָה שִׂפְתֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר וּמוֹצִ֥א דִ֝בָּ֗ה ה֣וּא כְסִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].conceals hatred \[is\].lips of.falsehood and \[one.who\].spreads a.bad.report he \[is\].a.fool

*JPS 1917:* He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

[Proverbs 25:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.10/#tree)

פֶּֽן־יְחַסֶּדְךָ֥ שֹׁמֵ֑עַ וְ֝דִבָּתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א תָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* lest he should.bring.you.shame \[one.who\].hears and your.bad report not it.will.turn.back

*JPS 1917:* Lest he that heareth it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1681.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1681/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).