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Backbite...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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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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BACKBITEbak'-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."
T. Rees
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 
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1143.htm - 6k2635. 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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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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Whether it is a Grave Sin for the Listener to Suffer the Backbiter ... 
... incited by their own wickedness, in order that our merit may be the greater." Therefore
 a man does not sin if he does not withstand those who backbite others. ... 
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Why the Perfect Contemplatives Take no Heed to Outward Song, and ... 
... Therefore I trow they grumble and backbite because they would that others higher
 in devotion come down to them, and conform themselves in all things to their ... 
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Letter ii. --To the City of Sebasteia . 
... whose heart is as our heart told us of the slanders that were being propagated to
 our detriment by those who hate peace, and privily backbite their neighbour ... 
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Whether Backbiting is Suitably Defined as the Blackening of ... 
... Reply to Objection 3: A man is said to backbite [detrehere] another, not because
 he detracts from the truth, but because he lessens his good name. ... 
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Whether Backbiting is a Mortal Sin? 
... good name. Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of
 an absent person in order to blacken his good name. Now ... 
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether backbiting is a mortal.htm
The Folly of Slander. Part 1. 
... not many having a form of godliness (some of them, demurely, others confidently,
 both without any sense of, or remorse for what they do) backbite their brethren ... 
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/the folly of slander part.htm
Sin. 
... curse, drink, get angry and cross; to refuse to help a needy neighbor when he can,
 to talk foolishly, to tell unseemly tales, to backbite, slander, commit ... 
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First Catechetical Lecture of Our Holy Father Cyril, 
... Excuse thyself from talking many idle words: neither backbite, nor lend a
 willing ear to backbiters; but rather be prompt to prayer. ... 
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How and in what Time I came to Solitary Life: and of the Song of ... 
... my God, of whom I received ilk good deed that I had; and that ye, thinking that
 all things under the sun are vanity, may be stirred to follow, not to backbite. ... 
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Christian Morals. Part I. 
... Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so
 much abhorrest; that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or ... 
//christianbookshelf.org/browne/christian morals/christian morals part i.htm
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