For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S
Open Bibleκαταλαλία
G2636 · katalalía · kat-al-al-ee'-ah · Greek
Strong’s definition
defamation
KJV usage
:--backbiting, evil speaking.
2mapped occurrences
2verses
2KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping
backbitings 1speakings 1
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Mapped occurrences
2 Corinthians 12:20Mapped KJV word: backbitings
1 Peter 2:1Mapped KJV word: speakings
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,