Dibbah דִּבָּה

Dibbah (Hebrew דִּבָּה, Strong's H1681) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “slander”. It occurs 9 times in 9 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Dibbah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 37:2
  These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Numbers

• Numbers 13:32
  And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
• Numbers 14:36
  And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
• Numbers 14:37
  Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

Psalms

• Psalm 31:13
  For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 10:18
  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• Proverbs 25:10
  Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 20:10
  For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 36:3
  Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).