Strong's #7270: ragal (pronounced raw-gal')

a primitive root; to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); also (as denominative from 7272) to lead about:--backbite, search, slander, (e-)spy (out), teach to go, view.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râgal

1) to go on foot, spy out, foot it, go about, walk along, move the feet

1a) (Qal) to be a tale-bearer, slander, go about

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to slander

1b2) to go about as explorer, spy

1c) (Tiphel) to teach to walk

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

Genesis 42:9: "of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land"
Genesis 42:11: "men, thy servants are no spies."
Genesis 42:14: "unto you, saying, Ye are spies:"
Genesis 42:16: "by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies."
Genesis 42:30: "roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country."
Genesis 42:31: "are true men; we are no spies:"
Genesis 42:34: "that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver"
Numbers 21:32: "And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out"
Deuteronomy 1:24: "unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out."
Joshua 2:1: "Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view"
Joshua 6:22: "had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's"
Joshua 6:23: "And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother,"
Joshua 6:25: "which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho."
Joshua 7:2: "of Bethel, and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and view the country."
Joshua 7:2: "and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai."
Joshua 14:7: "of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought"
Judges 18:2: "from their coasts, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out"
Judges 18:14: "the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said"
Judges 18:17: "And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in"
1 Samuel 26:4: "David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in"
2 Samuel 10:3: "search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow"
2 Samuel 15:10: "But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear"
2 Samuel 19:27: " And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
Psalms 15:3: " He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor,"