Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1681

דִּבָּה

dib.bah · “slander”

Used 9 times across 6 books

Definition

1) whispering, defamation, evil report
1a) whispering
1b) defamation, defaming
1c) evil report, unfavourable saying

Where it appears

Genesis

1

Numbers

3

Psalms

1

Proverbs

2

Jeremiah

1

Ezekiel

1

In the text

Genesis 37:2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.Numbers 13:32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.Numbers 14:36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.Psalms 31:14But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.Proverbs 25:10Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.Jeremiah 20:10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

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