ψιθυριστής
psithyristḗs · G5588 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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gossiper
One who habitually engages in gossip
ExamplesRomans 1:29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- κατάλαλος katálalos · G2637 · slanderer, one who insults
- κατάλαλος denotes a slanderer or defamer who speaks against others, typically more openly than the secretive whispering implied by ψιθυριστής; both refer to malicious speech about others but differ in the degree of secrecy or publicity involved
- διάβολος diábolos · G1228 · demon, evil spirit
- διάβολος in its non-titular use (not referring to Satan) means a slanderer or false accuser; while ψιθυριστής emphasizes the secretive, whispering nature of the slander, διάβολος focuses on the accusatory content itself without the secrecy nuance
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Gossiper33.405
- Romans 1:29 describes those filled with unrighteousness as “full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips”.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψιθυριστου, ὁ (see the preceding word), a whisperer, secret slanderer, detractor (German…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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