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Backbite

In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H7270
Hebrew
רָגַל · râgal

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

רָגַל

H7270
Transliteration
râgal
Pronunciation
raw-gal'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
26

Glosses

backbite, search, slander, (e-) spy (out), teach to go, view.

Lexicon definition

to walk along

but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be atale-bearer (i.e. slander)

to lead about

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Backbite

In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.

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Backbite

In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.

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