Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
2. (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
TATTLERtat'-ler: Only in 1 Timothy 5:13 for phluaros. A "silly talker," rather than a "revealer of secrets," is meant.
Greek
5397. phluaros -- babbling ... Word Origin from phluo (to babble) Definition babbling NASB Word Usage gossips
(1).
tattler. From phluo (to bubble); a garrulous person, ie Prater --
tattler.
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Addison
... He was educated at Oxford, and early developed poetic talent. His literary
contributions were made chiefly to the Tattler, the Guardian and the Spectator. ...
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Elijah's Appeal to the Undecided
... the people of God, and thinks herself one of the elect, is to be found full of wrath
and bitterness, a slave of mischief and of sin, a tattler, a slanderer, a ...
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A Bundle of Proverbs
... A loose tongue often does as much harm as a bitter one, and delight in dwelling
on people's faults is not innocent because the tattler did not think of the ...
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Letter cxxviii. To Gaudentius.
... Give her for guardian and companion a mistress and a governess, one not given to
much wine or in the apostle's words idle and a tattler, but sober, grave ...
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Of Uncharitable Truth.
... We generally think a tattler and busybody a title of no small reproach: yet truly
I know not to whom it more justly belongs, than to those, who busy themselves ...
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Ephesians v. 15, 16, 17
... says he, "give thanks for all things." This is the part of a well-disposed, of a
wise, of an intelligent servant; the opposite is that of a tattler, and an ...
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Thesaurus
Tattler... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
TATTLER. tat'-ler: Only in 1 Timothy 5:13 for
phluaros. A "silly talker," rather than a "revealer of secrets," is meant.
.../t/tattler.htm - 6kGossip (7 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
4. (n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. 5. (vt) To stand sponsor to. ...
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Whisperer (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One who whispers. 2. (n.) A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of
intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly. ...
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Tat'tenai (4 Occurrences)
Tat'tenai. Tattenai, Tat'tenai. Tattler . Multi-Version Concordance Tat'tenai
(4 Occurrences). ... (See RSV). Tattenai, Tat'tenai. Tattler . Reference Bible
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Tattlers (1 Occurrence)
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Tattler
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Gossip (7 Occurrences)
Whisperer (4 Occurrences)
Tat'tenai (4 Occurrences)
Tattlers (1 Occurrence)
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