H1848 H1848
A blemish, fault, or defect; slander or accusation alleging someone's flaw
This noun denotes a moral blemish or fault, used in Psalm 50 for slanderous speech against a family member. While related words describe physical defects, this term focuses on alleged character flaws. The psalmist condemns someone who 'alleges a fault' against his own brother—essentially engaging in slander within the family. The word captures both the objective flaw and the subjective accusation of it. Spanish and German translate as 'diffamation' and 'slander,' emphasizing the speech act, while the Hebrew allows for both the fault itself and the alleging of it.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Psalm 50:20 rebukes: 'You sit and speak against your brother; you allege a fault against your own mother's son.' The parallelism with 'speak against' clarifies that this is verbal accusation, not mere observation of flaw. God condemns such family slander in a psalm that contrasts authentic covenant loyalty with hypocritical religious observance. The term suggests not random gossip but deliberate fault-finding and accusation, especially heinous when directed at one's own kin. 1×
AR["عَيْبًا"]·ben["নিন্দা"]·DE["slander"]·EN["slander"]·FR["diffamation"]·heb["דופי"]·HI["दोष"]·IT["innocente"]·jav["panjenengan"]·KO["험담-을"]·PT["calnia"]·RU["порок"]·ES["difamación"]·SW["kashfa"]·TR["leke"]·urd["طعنہ"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [דֳּפִי] n.[m.] blemish, fault בְּבֶן־אִמְּךָ תִּתֶּן־דֹּֽפִי׃ ψ 50:20 against thy mother’s son thou dost allege a fault (‖ בְּאָחִיךָ תְרַבֵּ֑ר).