Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
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Talebearer
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Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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נִרְגָּן
nirgân · neer-gawn'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a slanderer
Strong's KJV usage: talebearer, whisperer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 18:8Strong's last: Proverbs 26:22
Open full H5372 profile →רָכִיל
râkîyl · raw-keel'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a scandal-monger (as travelling about)
Strong's KJV usage: slander, carry tales, talebearer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:16Strong's last: Proverbs 20:19
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hâlak · haw-lak'
1 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.
Strong's first: Proverbs 11:13Strong's last: Proverbs 11:13
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H1980
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
H5372
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
H7400
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
H5372
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
H5372
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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talebearer
TA'LEBEARER, noun [tale and bear.] A person who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently communicates intelligence or anecdotes, and makes mischief in society by his officiousness.
Where there is no talebearer the strife ceaseth. Proverbs 26:20.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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