Greek noun (masculine) · G5583
ψεύστης
pseustespsyoos-tace'
liar
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pseústēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5583is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5583
a falsifier
The King James renders it: liar.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pseustes is rendered "liar". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44ψεύστης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's ten uses are in 1 John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a liar7
- for liars1
- liar1
- liars1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ψεῦσμα | pseusma | falsehood | Uses1 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ψεύστης6
- ψεύστην2
- ψεῦσται1
- ψεύσταις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular6N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
John
two uses
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
Romans
one use
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
1 Timothy
one use
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
- ψεύσταιςpseustaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: for liars
Titus
one use
As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
- ψεῦσταιpseustainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: liars
1 John
five uses
If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
- ψεύστηνpseustennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: liar
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
- ψεύστηςpseustesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
- ψεύστηνpseustennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a liar
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.