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# לָחַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3907

**whisper** — used 3 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

whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3907/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָחַשׁ: vb. whisper, charm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3907/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. whisper, charm (NH id.; Aramaic לְחַשׁ, ܠܚܰܫ; Ethiopic ለሐሰ whisper, v. RSJPh. xiv. 1885, 122, possibly originally serpent-charming);— Pt. pl. קוֹל מְלַחֲשִׁים ψ 58:6 voice of whisperers (i.e. serpent-charmers; ‖ חוֹבֵר חֲבָרִים). whisper together, Impf. יִתְלַחֲשׁוּ c. עַל ψ 41:8; Pt. pl. מִתְלַחֲשִׁים 2 S 12:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] whispering to one another (1); of charmers (1); they whisper to one another (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.6/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־יִ֭שְׁמַע לְק֣וֹל מְלַחֲשִׁ֑ים חוֹבֵ֖ר חֲבָרִ֣ים מְחֻכָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* which not it.listens to.\[the\] sound of.charmers \[one.who\].casts spells skillful

*JPS 1917:* Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.

[Psalms 41:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.8/#tree)

יַ֗חַד עָלַ֣י יִ֭תְלַחֲשׁוּ כָּל־שֹׂנְאָ֑י עָלַ֓י ׀ יַחְשְׁב֖וּ רָעָ֣ה לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* together on me they.whisper.to.one.another all \[those who\].hate.me on me they.plot trouble for me

*JPS 1917:* All that hate me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my hurt:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3907.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3907/): 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).