H1681–דִּבָּה–dib.bah

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

דִּבָּתָ֥ם (דִּבָּתָ֥) di.ba.Ta “report”

They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

דִּבַּ֤ת di.Bat “<the> bad report of”

The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

דִבָּ֖ה di.Bah “a bad report”

even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

דִבַּת־ di.bat- “<of> [the] unfavorable report of”

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.

דִּבַּ֥ת di.Bat “[the] slander of”

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

דִ֝בָּ֗ה di.Bah “an evil report”

Lest one who hears it put you to shame, And your bad reputation never depart.

וְ֝דִבָּתְךָ֗ (דִבָּתְ) di.ba.te. “evil report”

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [ergänzt: say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

דִּבַּ֣ת di.Bat “[the] whispering of”

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

וְדִבַּת־ (דִבַּת) di.bat- “[the] whispering of”