pseustēs · liar

What it means

pseustēs (ψεύστης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “liar”.

Someone who tells lies.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One whose habit is to say what is not true.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• liar ×8
• liars ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• John×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• 1 John×5

• John 8:44

  You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of it.

• John 8:55

  And you have not known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and I keep his word.

• Romans 3:4

  By no means! Rather, let God be true, and every human being a liar, as it is written: So that you may be declared righteous in your words and prevail when you are judged.

• 1 Timothy 1:10

  the sexually immoral, men who lie with males, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching,

• Titus 1:12

  One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

• 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

  Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

• 1 John 2:22

  Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

• 1 John 4:20

  If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

• 1 John 5:10

  Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.