noun · masculine
pseustos
Strong’sG5583
a liar, deceiver
stem pseust-10 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 of 10 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.
ψεύστης, -ου, ὁ
(< ψεύδω), [in LXX: Ps 115:2 (116:11) (כֹּזֵב), Pr 19:22 Aא2 (כָּזָב), Si 15:8 25:2 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5583 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpsyoos-tace'
a falsifier
Fromfrom G5574;
King Jamesliar.
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
(ψεύδω) liar, cheat, LXX+8th c.BC+ with genitive _of things_, ὧν.. ψεῦσται φανούμεθα wherein we shall be found to be liars, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 adjective, ={ψευδής}, lying, false, ψ. λόγος Refs 5th c.BC+; ψεύστης δ᾽ οτος ἔπεστι λίθος, of a cenotaph, Refs 1st c.AD+; τὸν ψεύσταν δέ με τύμβον.. θέντο· τί θαῦμ; Κρῆτες ὅπου ψεῦσται, καὶ Διός ἐστι τάφοςRefs 6th c.BC+, which is cited by NT+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 nominative | pseustos6×ψεύστης | pseustois1×ψεῦσται |
| object accusative | pseuston2×ψεύστην | pseustoin |
| direct address vocative | pseustor | pseustoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pseustou | pseustoiu |
| to, for dative | pseusto | pseustoi1×ψεύσταις |
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
pseusto 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
pseustos“liar”subjectnominative singular6×
John 8:44… pseudem, ek teiu idieiu lalatō, hoti pseustos atō kai tos patros auteu.… native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:55… ouk oidamē auton, emi homoios vi pseustos; alla oidamē auton kai ton logon …… know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know …
Romans 3:4… tos theos alēthos, pantos de anthrōpos pseustos, kathōs grafotē; Hopōs an dikaiiseia en …… be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that …
1 John 2:4… kai tain entolain autou mē tērarōntos pseustos atō, kai en houto tas alētheias …… keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in …
1 John 2:22tinos atō tos pseustos ei mē tos arnorōntos hoti Iēsus …Who is the liar, if it is not the one …
1 John 4:20… theon, kai ton adelfon autou misateiō, pseustos atō; tos gar mē agaparōntos ton …… hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love …
pseuston“liar”objectaccusative singular2×
1 John 1:10ean leganeia hoti ouk hamartanē, pseuston poianō auton kai tos logos autou …… make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in …
1 John 5:10… heauto; tos mē pisteuarōntos to theo pseuston poiatē auton, hoti ouk pisteuatē eis …… made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in …
pseustois“liars”subjectnominative plural1×
Titus 1:12… autoiu, idios autoiu profētos, Krētois aei pseustois, kakoseim thēreim, gastrais argais;… prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
pseustoi“liars”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 1:10pornoi, arsenokoitoi, andrapodistoi, pseustoi, epiorkoi, kai ei tinem heterem ta …… for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else …