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# רָגַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7279

**murmur** — 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

murmur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7279/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָגַן: vb. murmur, whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7279/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. murmur, whisper (NH id.; 𝔗 Ithpe. backbite, slander);— murmur (rebelliously): Pt. pl. רוֹגְנִים Is 29:24 murmurers; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיֵּרָֽגְנוּ ψ 106:25 and they murmured in their tents, so 2 mpl. וַיֵרָֽגְנוּ Dt 1:27. whisper (maliciously), backbite, slander: Pt. נִרְגָּן backbiter Pr 16:28; 18:8; 26:20, 22.

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 (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: \[those who\] murmur (1); they murmured (1); you murmured (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.24/#tree)

וְיָדְע֥וּ תֹֽעֵי־ר֖וּחַ בִּינָ֑ה וְרוֹגְנִ֖ים יִלְמְדוּ־לֶֽקַח׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.know \[those.who\].go.astray of.spirit understanding and \[those.who\].murmur they.will.learn insight

*JPS 1917:* They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall learn instruction.

[Psalms 106:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.25/#tree)

וַיֵּרָגְנ֥וּ בְאָהֳלֵיהֶ֑ם לֹ֥א שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.murmured in tents their not they.listened to the.voice of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7279.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7279/): 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).