ἀψευδής
apseudḗs · G893 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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truthful
Pertaining to not speaking falsehood
ExamplesTitus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,
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
- ἀληθινός alēthinós · G228 · real, really, true
- ἀψευδής emphasizes the inability or unwillingness to lie (veracious character); ἀληθινός emphasizes genuineness and truthfulness as an essential quality. Both describe truthful nature but from slightly different angles—one negating falsehood, the other affirming genuineness.
- ἀληθής alēthḗs · G227 · true, truth, real
- ἀψευδής describes one who cannot lie (veracious); ἀληθής describes what is true or truthful, with emphasis on not concealing. The semantic overlap is strong, though ἀληθής is more general while ἀψευδής specifically emphasizes the absence of falsehood in character.
In the other Testament 1 word
- אֶמֶת ʼemeth · H571 · faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness
- ἀψευδής describes the attribute of being truthful/incapable of lying; אֱמֶת is the standard Hebrew term for truth and faithfulness as a divine and human attribute, making it a natural translation equivalent for expressing 'veracious' or 'truthful' character.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Truthful88.40
- Used of God's incapacity to speak falsely, as of the God who cannot lie in Titus 1:2.
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀψευδες (ψεῦδος), without lie, truthful: Tit 1:2. (In Greek writings from Hesiod theog.…
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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