Lexical Summary
psithurismos: Whispering, gossip, secret slander
Original Word: ψιθυρισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: psithurismos
Pronunciation: psith-oo-ris-MOS
Phonetic Spelling: (psith-oo-ris-mos')
KJV: whispering
NASB: gossip
Word Origin: [from a derivative of psithos "a whisper" (probably akin to G5574 (ψεύδομαι - lie))]
1. whispering, i.e. secret detraction
2. (by implication) a slander
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
whispering.
From a derivative of psithos (a whisper; by implication, a slander; probably akin to pseudomai); whispering, i.e. Secret detraction -- whispering.
see GREEK pseudomai
HELPS Word-studies
5587 psithyrismós (from psithos, "whisper") – properly, a whispering to "quietly" spread malicious gossip; "whispering" that launches "secret attacks on a person's character" (Souter).
[5587 (psithyrismós) is "an onomatopoetic word for the sibilant murmur of a snake charmer (Ecc 10:11)" (WP at 2 Cor 12:20).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom psithurizó (to whisper)
Definitiona whispering
NASB Translationgossip (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5587: ψιθυρισμόςψιθυρισμός,
ψιθυρισμου,
ὁ (
ψιθυρίζω, to whisper, speak into one's ear),
a whispering, i. e. secret slandering, (
Vulg.susurratio, German
Ohrenbläserei): joined with
καταλαλιά (cf.
Romans 1:29(30)),
2 Corinthians 12:20;
Clement of Rome, 30, 3 [ET]; 35, 5 [ET]. (
Plutarch; the
Sept. for
לַחַשׁ, of the magical murmuring of a charmer of snakes,
Ecclesiastes 10:11.)
