Whisper
Bible Usage:
- whisper used twice.
- whispered used once.
- whisperer used once.
- whisperers used once.
- whisperings used once.
- First Reference: Psalms 41:7
- Last Reference: Isaiah 29:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
See Busybody; Slander; Talebearer
Busybody; Slander; Talebearer
WHISPER, verb intransitive [Latin The word seems by its sound to be an onomatopy, as it expresses a sibilant sound or breathing.]
1. To speak with a low hissing or sibilant voice. It is ill manners to whisper in company.
The hollow whispring breeze--
2. To speak with suspicion or timorous caution.
3. To plot secretly; to devise in mischief.
All that hate me whisper together against me. Psalms 41:7.
WHISPER, verb transitive
1. To address in a low voice. He whispers the man in the ear. [But this is elliptical for whispers to.]
2. To utter in a low sibilant voice. He whispered a word in my ear.
3. To prompt secretly; as, the came to whisper Woolsey.
WHISPER, noun
1. A low soft sibilant voice; or words uttered with such a voice.
The whisper cannot give a tone.
Soft whispers through the assembly went.
2. A cautious or timorous speech.
3. A hissing or buzzing sound.
WHISPERED, participle passive Uttered in a low voice; uttered with suspicion or caution.
A slanderer.
Romans 1:29; 2 Corinthians 12:20
Slander; Speaking, Evil
WHISPERER, noun
1. One who whispers.
2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly.
3. A backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Proverbs 16:28.
WHISPERING, participle present tense Speaking in a low voice; telling secretly; backbiting.
WHISPERING, noun The act of speaking with a low voice; the telling of tales, and exciting of suspicions; a backbiting.
WHISPERINGLY, adverb In a low voice.