Lexical Summary
psithuristés: Whisperer, Gossip
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
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
whisperer.
From the same as psithurismos; a secret calumniator -- whisperer.
see GREEK psithurismos
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 Greek Lexicon
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).)
