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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3960 - לָשַׁן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) to use the tongue, slander
1a) (Poel) to slander
1b) (Piel) to slander
1c) (Hiphil) to accuse
- Book
- Word
2325) nsl (לסהנ LShN) AC: Slander CO: Tongue AB: Language: The wagging of the tongue when talking or slandering.
V) nsl (לסהנ LShN) - Slander: To slander another as a wagging of the tongue. KJV (3): (vf: Hiphil, Piel) slander, accuse - Strongs: H3960 (לָשַׁן)
em) nsil (ליסהנ LYShN) - Language: As coming from the movement of the tongue. [Aramaic only] KJV (7): language - Strongs: H3961 (לִשָּׁן)
cm) nfsl (לסהונ LShWN) - I. Tongue: II. Language:As coming from the movement of the tongue. KJV (117): tongue, language, bay, wedge, babbler, flame, talker - Strongs: H3956 (לְשֹׁנָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Po`el Participle מְלָו֯שְׁנִי בַּסֵּתֶד רֵעֵהוּ Psalm 101:5 (on form, compare Ges§ 90, 3 Kö Lgb. i. § 26).
Hiph`il Imperfect 2 masculine singular jussive ׳אַלתַּֿלְשֵׁן עֶבֶד וגו Proverbs 30:10.
לָשַׁן unused in Kal. [“But apparently signifying to lap, like the cognate words, لَسَّ, لسب, لسم compare לָחַשׁ. حس.”]
Poel לוֹשֵׁן denom. from לָשׁוֹן pr. to make tongue, to tongue, i.e. to use the tongue boldly (comp. Germ. Beine machen, used of any one running swiftly, fleeing); to slander (see לָשׁוֹן used of the tongue of a slanderer). Part. with suff. מְלוֹשְׁנִי, מְלָֽשְׁנִי קרי, for מְלַשְׁנִי, מְלַשְׁנִי, part. Piel, Psalms 101:5. (Arab. لَسَنَ to slander.)
Hiphil, id. Proverbs 30:10.
