Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. 2. (n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. 3. (n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. 4. (n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. 5. (v. t.) To stand sponsor to. 6. (v. i.) To make merry. 7. (v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much. 8. (v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

Multi-Version Concordance Gossip (7 Occurrences) 2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; (See NAS RSV NIV) Proverbs 11:13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. (WEB NIV) Proverbs 16:28 A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends. (See NIV) Proverbs 18:8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts. (WEB NIV) Proverbs 20:19 He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide. (See NAS RSV NIV) Proverbs 26:20 For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. (WEB NIV) Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; (See RSV)