Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #274207

OSHB Prov 18:8 נִרְגָּן (nirgān) Strongs=5372 Lemma=‘רגן’
contextual word gloss=‘a_slanderer’ word gloss=‘whisperer’
Morphology=VNrmsa PoS=niphal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1000

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Other uses (2) of identical word form נִרְגָּן (Morphology=VNrmsa PoS=niphal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִרְגָּן’ (Morphology=VNrmsa PoS=niphal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘a_slanderer’.

PROV 26:20 contextual word gloss=‘a_slanderer’ word gloss=‘whisperer’ OSHB PROV 26:20 word 6

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)

PROV 26:22 contextual word gloss=‘a_slanderer’ word gloss=‘whisperer’ OSHB PROV 26:22 word 2

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)