דִּבָּה
diba · bad report
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1681 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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diba (דִּבָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bad report”.
About someone; slander, gossip.
How to say it
di·ba
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What is told to harm someone's name.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- slander ×3
- bad report ×2
- whispering ×2
- report ×1
- reports ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.
- Numbers 13:32
And they spread a bad report of the land that they had explored among the sons of Israel, saying, “The land that we passed through to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of great size.
- Numbers 14:36
And the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, and who returned and made all the community grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land,
- Numbers 14:37
the men who brought out a bad report of the land died by the plague before YHWH.
- Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side, when they conspire together against me; they plot to take my soul.
- Proverbs 10:18
He who conceals hatred has lips of falsehood, and he who spreads slander is senseless.
- Proverbs 25:10
lest he who hears it put you to shame, and the slander against you not go away.
- Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce him, and let us denounce him!” All the men of my peace, watching for my stumbling, say, “Perhaps he will let himself be seduced, and we will prevail over him, and we will take our vengeance on him.”
- Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy and say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Precisely because of making you desolate and hounding you from all around, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations, and you have come up on the lip of the tongue and into the slander of the people,