נִרְגָּןnirgân/neer-gawn'/
HebrewH53724 occurrences (KJV)
a slanderer
KJV renders it: talebearer, whisperer.
Where it appears
- Prov 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
- Prov 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Prov 26:22The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.