ψεύστης pseustēs

Greek word for “liar” · Strong’s G5583 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

ψεύστης, -ου, ὁ; (ψεύδω); a liar:, Jn 2:4 Jn 2:22 Jn 4:20 Jn 5:10.†;

How it is translated

Glosses given for pseustēs in context, with how often each is used:

• liar 8
• liars 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 8 (2), 1 John 2 (2), Romans 3 (1), 1 Timothy 1 (1), Titus 1 (1), 1 John 1 (1), 1 John 4 (1), 1 John 5 (1)

Forms

• ψεύστης 6
• ψεύστην 2
• ψεύσταις 1
• ψεῦσται 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pseustēs more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• λόγος logos “word” 3
• τηρέω tēreō “to keep” 2
• ἀλήθεια alētheia “truth” 2
• ἴδιος idios “one's own/private” 2
• γινώσκω ginōskō “to know” 2
• ἐάν ean “if” 2
• υἱός uhios “son” 2
• πατήρ patēr “father” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using pseustēs that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no…
• John 8:55 — Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
• Romans 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art…
• 1 Timothy 1:10 — For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is…
• Titus 1:12 — One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
• 1 John 1:10 — If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• 1 John 2:4 — He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 1 John 2:22 — Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
• 1 John 4:20 — If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
• 1 John 5:10 — He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.