BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7279
ra.gan — to grumble
1) to murmur, whisper 1a) (Qal) murmurer (participle) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to murmur 1b2) backbiter (participle) Also means: nir.gan (נִרְגָּן "whisperer" H5372)
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5372
nir.gan — whisperer
1) to murmur, whisper 1a) murmurers 1b) backbite, slander, talebearer, backbiter
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
