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noun · masculine

psithuristos

Greekψιθυριστής (psithuristēs)

Strong’sG5588

a whisperer, secret slanderer

stem psithurist-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

gossips

What it means

* ψιθυριστής, -οῦ, ὁ

(v. supr.),

a whisperer (as epithet of Hermes, Dem., 1358, 6): in bad sense, Ro 1:30.†
Syn.: καταλάλος, q.v

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5588 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpsith-oo-ris-tace'

a secret calumniator

Fromfrom the same as G5587;

King Jameswhisperer.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativepsithuristospsithuristois
object accusativepsithuristonpsithuristoinψιθυριστάς
direct address vocativepsithuristorpsithuristoir
of, belonging to genitivepsithuristoupsithuristoiu
to, for dativepsithuristopsithuristoi

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
psithuriststem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

psithuristo 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

psithuristoin“gossips”objectaccusative plural

Romans 1:29“gossips”plērirētoin panta adikia ponēria pleonexia kakia, mestoin fthonou fonou erau dolou kakoētheiau, psithuristoin,They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,