noun · neuter
pseusmem
Strong’sG5582
a falsehood, lie
stem pseusm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ψεῦσμα, -τος, τό
(< ψεύδω), [in Aq., Th.: Jb 34:6, Pr 23:3; in Sm.: Jb 13:4, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5582 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpsyoos'-mah
a fabrication, i.e. falsehood
Fromfrom G5574;
King Jameslie.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
lie, untruth, fraud, εὐτυχέστατον ψεῦσμα ἐψευσμένος Refs 5th c.BC+
II τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς ῥινὸς φυομένους ἰόνθους Σικελιῶται ψεύσματα ἔλεγον Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | pseusmem | pseusmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | pseusmeu | pseusmeiu |
| to, for dative | pseusme1×ψεύσματι | pseusmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pseusme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
pseusme“lie”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 3:7“lie”… alētheias tou theou en te ēme pseusme perisseuata eis tan doxan autou, tinem …However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I …