Bible dictionaries
Chatter
What Bible dictionaries say about “Chatter”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Chatter - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
CHATTER, v.i. [See Chat.]
1. To utter sounds rapidly and indistinctly, as a magpie, or a monkey.
2. To make a noise by collision of the teeth. We say, the teeth chatter, when one is chilly and shivering.
3. To talk idly, carelessly or rapidly; to jabber.
CHATTER, n. Sounds like those of a pie or monkey; idle talk.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
chat'-er (tsaphaph): This word, which means to "peep," "twitter" or "chirp," as small birds do, is translated "chatter" only in Isa 38:14, "Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter."
See CHIRP.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915