Hebrew verb · H3960
לָשַׁן
lashanlaw-shan'
to slander
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâshan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3960is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3960
to wag the tongue, i.e. to calumniate
The King James renders it: accuse, 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
lashan is rendered "to slander". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Psalms 101:5מְלָשְׁנִ֬י
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
- slanders1
- you slander1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- מְלָשְׁנִ֬י1
- תַּלְשֵׁ֣ן1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhj2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
Psalms
one use
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- מְלָשְׁנִ֬יmelasheniverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: slanders
Proverbs
one use
Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt.
- תַּלְשֵׁ֣ןtalshenverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you slander
The letters
Gematria 380· 1,030 mispar gadol
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.