Bible dictionaries
Defame; Defaming
What Bible dictionaries say about “Defame; Defaming”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Defaming - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DEFAMING, ppr. Slandering; injuring the character by false reports.
DEFAMING, n. Defamation; slander.
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)
de-fam', de-fam'-ing: These words occur but twice in the King James Version, and are translations of dibbah, "slander," from dabhath, "to slander," or spread an evil report, and blasphemeo, "to speak injuriously" of anyone (Jer 20:10; 1Co 4:13). "To defame" differs from "to revile" in that the former refers to public slander, the latter to personal abuse.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915