noun · masculine
psithuristos
Strong’sG5588
a whisperer, secret slanderer
stem psithurist-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.
* ψιθυριστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(v. supr.),
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
whisperer, at Athens as epithet of Hermes, Refs 4th c.BC+; of Ἔρως, Refs: perhaps compare Mercurius Susurrio, Refs
2 slanderer, NT
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 | psithuristos | psithuristois |
| object accusative | psithuriston | psithuristoin1×ψιθυριστάς |
| direct address vocative | psithuristor | psithuristoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | psithuristou | psithuristoiu |
| to, for dative | psithuristo | psithuristoi |
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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
psithuristoin“gossips”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 1:29… mestoin fthonou fonou eridau dolou kakoētheiau, psithuristoin,… strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,