נִרְגָּן nirgân — a slanderer
Translated in the KJV as talebearer, whisperer.
from an unused root meaning to roll to pieces; a slanderer.
nirgân in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 4
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
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