·vi To censure or revile the absent.
II. Backbite ·vi To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23...
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