דִּבָּהdibbâh
whispering, defamation, evil report
Pronunciation: dib-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1681
Meanings
1. whispering (Psalms 31:14; Jeremiah 20:10)
2. defamation (Proverbs 10:18)
3. evil report, specifically a (true) report of evil doing (Genesis 37:2; Proverbs 25:10; Ezekiel 36:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
- Numbers 13:32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.
- Numbers 14:36 The ten men Moses had sent to explore the land—the ones who incited rebellion against the Lord with their bad report—
- Numbers 14:37 were struck dead with a plague before the Lord.
- Psalms 31:13 I have heard the many rumors about me, and I am surrounded by terror. My enemies conspire against me, plotting to take my life.
- Proverbs 10:18 Hiding hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).