Strong's #5372: nirgan (pronounced neer-gawn')

from an unused root meaning to roll to pieces; a slanderer:--talebearer, whisperer.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nirgân

1) to murmur, whisper

1a) murmurers

1b) backbite, slander, talebearer, backbiter

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from an unused root meaning to roll to pieces

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Proverbs 16:28: "man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."
Proverbs 18:8: "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly."
Proverbs 26:20: "is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth."
Proverbs 26:22: "The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly."