Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>
> 
> <snip> and I'm not sure what a "Nirgan" is, it's
> hard to tell.
> 
> Yigal
>
Dear Yigal:

I read “Nirgan” as a derivation of “ragan” which is used twice in Deuteronomy 
1:27 and Psalm 106:25 referring to a complaining, murmuring in the ear and 
not a loud demonstration. As such, it is a synonym of DBH “evil report, 
defamation” though quietly spoken as in HGH “to mutter”.

NRGN is found four times in Proverbs: 16:28, 18:8, 26:20, 22 and each time it 
seems to refer to the person who is doing the murmuring, complaining.

Incidentally, MTLHMYM also occurs in Proverbs 26:22, again in connection with 
NRGN.

Yours, Karl W. Randolph.
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