Lexicon psithuristés: a whisperer Original Word: ψιθυριστής, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: psithuristés Phonetic Spelling: (psith-oo-ris-tace') Short Definition: a whisperer, secret slanderer Definition: a whisperer, secret slanderer. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 5588 psithyristḗs – properly, a whisperer; a sneaky gossip (a "back-stabber"); a backbiter, quietly (secretly) destroying another person's character – i.e. covertly, not out in the open, but rather operating "in a corner." See 5587 (psithyrismos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as psithurismosDefinitiona whisperer NASB Translationgossips (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5588: ψιθυριστήςψιθυριστής, ψιθυριστου, ὁ (see the preceding word), a whisperer, secret slanderer, detractor (German Ohrenbläser): Romans 1:29 (30). (At Athens an epithet of Hermes, Demosthenes, p. 1358, 6; also of ὁ ἔρως and Aphrodite, Suidas, p. 3957 c.; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 24).)
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