Whisperer
נִרְגָּןStrong’s H7279nirgan (nir-gan)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nirgan is the Hebrew word usually translated “slanderer”, “murmured” and “murmurers”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
Meaning
- To murmur, whispermurmurers · backbite, slander, talebearer, backbiter
How it's translated
- a slanderer 3
- and you murmured 1
- and they murmured 1
- and a slanderer 1
- and murmurers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 106:25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
- Proverbs 16:28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
- Proverbs 18:8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
- Proverbs 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
- Proverbs 26:22The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
- Isaiah 29:24They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Hebrew dictionary
נִרְגָּן nirgan · whisperer
1) to murmur, whisper 1a) murmurers 1b) backbite, slander, talebearer, backbiter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whisperer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHISPERER, noun
- One who whispers.
- A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly.
- A backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Proverbs 16:28
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.