Strong’s H5372 · Hebrew

נִרְגָּן

nirgân · neer-gawn'

Origin from an unused root meaning to roll to pieces;

Meaning a slanderer

In the King James Version talebearer, whisperer.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

Proverbs 16:28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 26:22The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.