Backbite

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In Psa_15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Pro_25:23, secret tale bearing or slandering; in Rom_1:30 and 2Co_12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.

bak´bīt רגל, rāghal; δολόω, dolóō̌: To slander the absent, like a dog biting behind the back, where one cannot see; to go about as a talebearer. “He that backbiteth [Revised Version, slandereth not with his tongue” (Psa_15:3).

Backbiters bak´bīt-ẽrz (Greek κατάλαλοι, katálaloǐ: Men who speak against. Vulgate, “detractors” (Rom_1:30).

Backbiting bak´bīt-ing: סתר, ṣetheř: Adj. “a backbiting tongue”; literally, “a tongue of secrecy” (Pro_25:23). καταλαλία, katalalíǎ: substantive “a speaking against” (2Co_12:20; Wisdom 2Co_1:11); “evil speaking” (1Pe_2:1). γλώσσα τρίτη, glō̇ssa trítē̌: “a backbiting tongue” (the King James Version of Ecclesiasticus 28:14, 15); more literally translated in the Revised Version (British and American) “a third person's tongue.”