Words

דִּבָּה H1681

Home gloss

whispering

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

evil report / ill report

Note

Talk passed on quietly, true or false (37:2; Num 13:32; 14:36–37; Jer 20:10; Prov 10:18). "Report" is שֵׁמַע's

Rulings

3, 25

Occurrences (1)

Genesis 37

• 37:2 These are the producings of Jacob. Joseph, a son of seventeen years, was shepherding with his brothers among the flock, and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the women of his father. And Joseph brought their whispering, bad, to their father.