Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1681
דִּבָּה
dibbahdib-baw'
slander
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dibbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1681is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1681
slander
The King James renders it: defaming, evil report, infamy, slander.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dibbah is rendered "slander". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:2This 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.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
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.
Genesis 37:2דִּבָּתָ֥ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a bad report1
- an evil report1
- and evil report your1
- and whispering of1
- of unfavorable report of1
- report their1
- slander of1
- the bad report of1
- whispering of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דִבָּ֖ה1
- דִ֝בָּ֗ה1
- דִּבַּ֥ת1
- דִּבַּ֤ת1
- דִּבַּ֣ת1
- דִבַּת־1
- דִּבָּתָ֥ם1
- וְדִבַּת־1
- וְ֝דִבָּתְךָ֗1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
Genesis
one use
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.
- דִּבָּתָ֥םdibatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: report their
Numbers
three uses
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.
- דִּבַּ֤תdibatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the bad report of
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—
- דִבָּ֖הdibahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a bad report
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- דִבַּת־dibat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of unfavorable report of
Psalms
one use
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- דִּבַּ֥תdibatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: slander of
Proverbs
two uses
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
- דִ֝בָּ֗הdibahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an evil report
lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.
- וְ֝דִבָּתְךָ֗vedibatekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and evil report your
Jeremiah
one use
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.”
- דִּבַּ֣תdibatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: whispering of
Ezekiel
one use
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,
- וְדִבַּת־vedibat-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and whispering of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.