דׇּפִי
dophîy · H1848 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to slander
Exact meaning unsure; literally, possibly: to give slander; hence: action by which humans speak bad about alleged faults they find with other humans
ExamplesPsalm 50:20 “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- גִּדּוּף giddûwph · H1421 · reviling, mockery, insult
- Both words denote verbal abuse or hostile speech, namely reproach and reviling, in the sphere of malicious or accusatory speech.
- גְּדוּפָה gᵉdûwphâh · H1422 · reviling, mockery, insult
- Both words refer to acts of verbal abuse or reviling (taunt, slander) and overlap in sense around verbal attack or reproach.
- לַעַג laʻag · H3933 · scoffing, mocking, derision
- Both describe negative, contemptuous speech—דׇּפִי (dophîy, H1848) slander, לַעַג (laʻag, H3933) derision or scorn—two closely related forms of verbal attack or mockery.
- שְׂחוֹק sᵉchôwq · H7814 · laughter, laughingstock
- דׇּפִי (dophîy, H1848) denotes verbal slander while שְׂחוֹק (sᵉchôwq, H7814) denotes derision, mockery, or scornful laughter; the two occupy overlapping space within negative or mocking speech acts, though שְׂחוֹק (sᵉchôwq, H7814) also carries a distinct sense of laughter or sport.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- דׇּפִי denotes slander or reviling speech, as in Proverbs' description of a wife of noble character whose tongue is free from slanderous speech.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1848. dophi [דֳּפִי] noun [masculine] blemish, fault תִּתֶּןֿדֹּפִי׃ בְּבֶןאִֿמְּךָ Psa…
[דֳּפִי] noun [masculine] blemish, fault תִּתֶּןֿדֹּפִי׃ בְּבֶןאִֿמְּךָ Psa 50:20 against thy mother's son thou dost allege a fault (|| תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּאָחִיךָ).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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