Definition

defamation

Etymology

from G2637 (κατάλαλος);

Word family

• κατάλαλος katálalos

How the KJV renders it

• backbiting
• evil speaking

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.