A BAD REPORT, whispering, defamation — not neutral news but the word for a campaign of talk. Joseph brings his father 'their bad report' (37:2), and the text pointedly declines to say whether it was true. The word's two other famous appearances are both fatal: the ten scouts bring back 'a bad report of the land' that costs a generation the promise (Numbers 13:32, now on these pages) — and note what the word does NOT settle there: their FIRST report was true (13:27), the second is called dibbah, and the text never says the second is false, only that it was a thing put about. Spanish NVI translates it 'falsos rumores', false rumours, deciding a question the Hebrew leaves open. And Jeremiah hears 'the whispering of many' from the men circling to kill him (Jeremiah 20:10). KJV 'evil report'; NWT 'bad report about them.' → first discussed at Gen 37:2