לָשַׁן
lâshan · H3960 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to slander
Action by which humans speak bad about alleged faults they find with other humans
ExamplesPsalm 101:5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; I will not endure one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
- רֵעַneighbor, friend 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward+ אָדוֹןlord 1
- בin/on/with+ סֵתֶרsecret, hiding place 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַלnot, do not 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- κατηγορέω katēgoréō · G2723 · to accuse, to bring charges
- Greek verb meaning to accuse or bring charges against someone, overlaps with the accusatory sense of לָשַׁן though κατηγορέω can apply to formal legal accusation as well as slander.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Speak002004001009008
- לָשַׁן means to slander or accuse, as in Psalm 101:5's "whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy," placing it among terms of harmful speech.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3960. lashan [לָשַׁן] verb denominative use the tongue, only specifically, slander; —…
[לָשַׁן] verb denominative use the tongue, only specifically, slander; —
Po`el Participle רֵעֵהוּ בַּסֵּתֶד מְלָו֯שְׁנִי Psa 101:5 (on form, compare Ges§ 90, 3 KöLgb. i. § 26).
Hiph`il Imperfect2masculine singular jussive וגו עֶבֶד ׳אַלתַּֿלְשֵׁן Pro 30:10.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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