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Whisp [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Wisp.

2. A flock of snipe.

Whisper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A low soft sibilant voice; or words uttered with such a voice.

2. The whisper cannot give a tone.

3. Soft whispers through the assembly went.

4. A cautious or timorous speech.

5. A hissing or buzzing sound.

Whisper [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To speak with a low hissing or sibilant voice. It is ill manners to whisper in company.

2. The hollow whispring breeze--

3. To speak with suspicion or timorous caution.

4. To plot secretly; to devise in mischief.

5. All that hate me whisper together against me. Psalms 41:7 .

Whisper [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To address in a low voice. He whispers the man in the ear. [But this is elliptical for whispers to.]

2. To utter in a low sibilant voice. He whispered a word in my ear.

3. To prompt secretly; as, the came to whisper Woolsey.

Whisper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.

2. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.

3. A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154.

4. A cautious or timorous speech.

5. Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation.

6. A low, sibilant sound.

Whisper [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.

Whisper [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.

2. To address in a whisper, or low voice.

3. To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

Whispered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Uttered in a low voice; uttered with suspicion or caution.

Whispered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Whisperer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who whispers.

2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly.

3. A backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Proverbs 16:28 .

Whisperer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who whispers.

2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.

Whispering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of speaking with a low voice; the telling of tales, and exciting of suspicions; a backbiting.

Whispering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Speaking in a low voice; telling secretly; backbiting.

Whispering Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.

Whispering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Whisperingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a low voice.

Whisperingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers.

Whisperously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Whisperingly.

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10 KJV and 13 BSB verses contain “Whisp”

2 Samuel 12:19

But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.

Job 4:12

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

Job 26:14

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Psalms 41:7

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

Psalms 107:29

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Isaiah 8:19

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 29:4

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Luke 12:3

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

John 7:12

And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.

Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”

John 7:32

The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.

Romans 1:29

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Sirach 5:14

Be not called a whisperer, and lie not in wait with thy tongue: for a foul shame is upon the thief, and an evil condemnation upon the double tongue.

Sirach 12:18

He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.

Sirach 21:28

A whisperer defileth his own soul, and is hated wheresoever he dwelleth.

Sirach 28:13

Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have destroyed many that were at peace.