noun · masculine
psithurismos
Strong’sG5587
a whispering, secret slandering
stem psithurism-once in the New Testament1 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.
† ψιθυρισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ψιθυρίζω, to whisper), [in LXX: Ec 10:11 (לַחַשׁ) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5587 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpsith-oo-ris-mos'
by implication, a slander; probably akin to G5574); whispering, i.e. secret detraction
Fromfrom a derivative of ψίθος (a whisper;
King Jameswhispering.
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
whispering, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 slandering, NT
3 whistle of a snake-charmer, LXX
4 crepitation, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | psithurismos | psithurismois1×ψιθυρισμοί |
| object accusative | psithurismon | psithurismoin |
| direct address vocative | psithurismor | psithurismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | psithurismou | psithurismoiu |
| to, for dative | psithurismo | psithurismoi |
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
psithurismo 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
psithurismois“gossip”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Corinthians 12:20… pōs eridas, zēlos, thumois, eritheiais, katalaliais, psithurismois, fusiōsiais, akatastasiais;… be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.