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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

chat'-er (tsaphaph): This word, which means to "peep," "twitter" or "chirp," as small birds do, is translated "chatter" only in Isa 38:14, "Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter."

See CHIRP.