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...BACKBITE. bak'-bit raghal; doloo: To slander the absent, like a dog biting behind
the back, where one cannot see; to go about as a talebearer. ...
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Greek
1143. dakno -- to bite
... to bite. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: dakno Phonetic Spelling: (dak'-no)
Short Definition: I bite, backbite, harm seriously Definition: I bite; hence ...
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2635. katalaleo -- to speak evil of
... hostile, deriding way; to mock (revile), from someone's reputation by "malice of
speech directed against one's neightbor" (, 4,4); to defame, slander (backbite ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BACKBITE

bak'-bit raghal; doloo: 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" (Psalm 15:3).

Backbiters bak'-bit-rz (Greek katalaloi: Men who speak against. Vulgate, "detractors" (Romans 1:30)).

Backbiting bak'-bit-ing: cether: Adj. "a backbiting tongue"; literally, "a tongue of secrecy" (Proverbs 25:23). katalalia: substantive "a speaking against" (2 Corinthians 12:20; Wisdom 1:11); "evil speaking" (1 Peter 2:1). glossa trite: "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."

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Easton's Bible Dictionary
In Psalm 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Proverbs 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Romans 1:30 and 2 Corinthians 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

2. (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

Strong's Hebrew
7270. ragal -- to go about on foot
... spies (11), spy (9), taught to walk (1). backbite, slander, espy out, teach
to go, view. A primitive root; to walk along; but only ...
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