H1681Noun, feminine9 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 37:2דִּבָּתָם
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.
- Numbers 13:32דִּבַּת
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.
- Psalm 31:13דִּבַּת
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- Proverbs 10:18דִבָּה
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
- Jeremiah 20:10דִּבַּת
For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
- Ezekiel 36:3וְדִבַּת
therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.