Word

ψεύστης

pseústēs · G5583 · Greek · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

liar

One who utters falsehoods and lies

Examples
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him. And if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you; but I do know Him, and I follow His word.
Romans 3:4 Far from it! Rather, God must prove to be true, though every person be found a liar, as it is written: “SO THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅμοιοςlike 1

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 2

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 4 groups

Κρήςa Cretan 1
λέγωto say 1
ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
τηρέωto keep, to obey, to guard 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Liar33.255: Titus 1:12 quotes a Cretan prophet as saying, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Word family 16 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ψεύδομαι pseúdomai · G5574 · to lie, to tell falsehoods · 12×ψευδοπροφήτης pseudoprophḗtēs · G5578 · false prophet · 11×ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood · 10×ψεύστηςpseústēs · G5583ψευδομαρτυρέω pseudomartyréō · G5576 · to give false witness, to testify falsely · 5×ψευδής pseudḗs · G5571 · liar · 3×ψευδάδελφος pseudádelphos · G5569 · false brother · 2×ψευδομάρτυρ pseudomártyr · G5575 · false witness · 2×ψευδομαρτυρία pseudomartyría · G5577 · false testimony · 2×ψευδόχριστος pseudóchristos · G5580 · false Christ, false Messiah · 2×ἀψευδής apseudḗs · G893 · truthful · 1×ψευδαπόστολος pseudapóstolos · G5570 · false apostle · 1×ψευδοδιδάσκαλος pseudodidáskalos · G5572 · false teacher, teacher of what is a lie · 1×ψευδολόγος pseudológos · G5573 · liar · 1×ψευδώνυμος pseudṓnymos · G5581 · falsely called, falsely named · 1×ψεῦσμα pseûsma · G5582 · lie, falsehood · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψευστου, ὁ (ψεύδω), from Homer down, a liar: Jn 8:44, Jn 8:55; 1 Jn 1:10; 1 Jn 2:4, 1 Jn…

ψευστου, ὁ (ψεύδω), from Homer down, a liar: Jn 8:44, Jn 8:55; 1 Jn 1:10; 1 Jn 2:4, 1 Jn 2:22; 1 Jn 4:20; 1 Jn 5:10; 1 Tim 1:10; Tit 1:12; (Rev 21:8 Lachmann (others ψευδής, which see)); one who breaks faith, a false or faithless man (see ψεῦσμα), Rom 3:4 cf. Prov 19:22.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Speak Truth, Speak Falsehood10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0