Original Word: ψιθυριστής
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: psithuristés
Pronunciation: psith-oo-ris-TACE
Phonetic Spelling: (psith-oo-ris-tace')
KJV: whisperer
NASB: gossips
Word Origin: [from a derivative of psithos "a whisper" (by implication, a slander) (probably akin to G5574 (ψεύδομαι - lie))]

1. a secret slanderer

whisperer.

From the same as psithurismos; a secret calumniator -- whisperer.

see GREEK psithurismos

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).

Word Origin
from the same as psithurismos
Definition
a whisperer
NASB Translation
gossips (1).

STRONGS NT 5588: ψιθυριστής

ψιθυριστής, 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).)

Forms and Transliterations

ψιθυριστας ψιθυριστάς ψιλήν psithuristas psithyristas psithyristás

Links

Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts