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HebrewH1681Noun (Feminine)

דִּבָּה

dib.bah

8Occurrences
H1681Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

slander

from H1680 (דָּבַב) (in the sense of furtive motion);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. whispering, defamation, evil report 1a) whispering 1b) defamation, defaming 1c) evil report, unfavourable saying

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

דִּבָּה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
3
Proverbs
2
Ezk
1
Genesis
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

Ezk 36:3BSB

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Genesis 37:2BSB

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Jeremiah 20:10BSB

For I have heard the whispering of many:“Terror is on every side!Report him; let us report him!”All my trusted friendswatch for my fall:“Perhaps he will be deceivedso that we may prevail against himand take our vengeance upon him.”

Numbers 13:32BSB

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Numbers 14:36BSB

So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.