Strongs H5372

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נִרְגָּן (nirgân) v (neer-gawn')
Source: from an unused root meaning to roll to pieces;
Meaning: a slanderer
KJV: talebearer, whisperer.

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

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רָגַן vb. murmur, whispermurmur (rebelliously)Qal murmurers; Niph. and they murmured in their tents whisper (maliciously), backbite, slander:Niph. backbiter {920}

Appears in a total of 4 verses:

PRO 16:28

OET-LV: 28 A _person _of perversiti(es) he _sends _out strife and is_separating a _close _friend. (PRO_16:28)

OET-RV: 28 Perverse people stir up strife,
⇔ → then it separates close friends. (PRO 16:28)

PRO 18:8

OET-LV: 8 the_words/messages _of a _slanderer are_like_delicacies and_they they _go _down the_chambers _of the_belly. (PRO_18:8)

OET-RV: 8 ‘News’ snippets from a gossip are like delicious snacks—
⇔ → they get absorbed like food going down into your stomach. (PRO 18:8)

PRO 26:22

OET-LV: 22 the_words/messages _of a _slanderer are_like_delicacies and_they they _go _down the_chambers _of the_belly. (PRO_26:22)

OET-RV: 22 The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels,
⇔ and they go right down into the person’s insides. (PRO 26:22)

PRO 26:20

OET-LV: 20 With_not _of wood(s) it _is _extinguished a _fire and_when_there_is_not a _slanderer strife it _becomes _quiet. (PRO_26:20)

OET-RV: 20 When there’s no more firewood, the fire goes out,
⇔ and when there’s no gossiper, a conflict dies down. (PRO 26:20)

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