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# רגן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5372

**murmur** — used 4 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/1512/5372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָגַן: vb. murmur, whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/5372/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a slanderer (2); of a slanderer (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.28/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֭הְפֻּכוֹת יְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָד֑וֹן וְ֝נִרְגָּ֗ןמַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.perversiti(es) he.sends.out strife and a.slanderer \[is\].separating a.close.friend

*JPS 1917:* A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.

[Proverbs 18:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.8/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.a.slanderer \[are\].like delicacies and they they.go.down \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5372.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/5372/): 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).