Pseustes means “liar” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5583 — cead (“helping”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5583 ψευστής (pseustes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pseustes (psyoos-tace') n. 1. a falsifier [from G5574] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include liar and liars. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pseustes (psyoos-tace') n. 1. a falsifier [from G5574] KJV: liar Root(s): G5574
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5583. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
liar
Usage: ψεύστης, -ου, ὁ (ψεύδω), [in LXX: Psa.116:11 (כָּזַב), Pro.19:22 A N2 (כָּזָב), Sir.15:8 25:2 * ;] a liar: Jhn.8:44, 55, Rom.3:4, 1Ti.1:10, Tit.1:12, 1Jn.1:10 Jn 2:4 Jn 2:22 Jn 4:20 Jn 5:10 .† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pseustes, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5583 (ψευστής) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
10 indexed usages in New Testament.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar.
Mercy is a fruit to a man: And a poor man is better than a rich liar.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For she is far from pride, And men that are liars cannot remember her.
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, And I am greatly offended at their life: A poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, And an old adulterer that doateth.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5583.
And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar.
Mercy is a fruit to a man: And a poor man is better than a rich liar.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
For she is far from pride, And men that are liars cannot remember her.
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, And I am greatly offended at their life: A poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, And an old adulterer that doateth.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5583, grouped by book.
Pseustes (Strong's G5583) is a Greek word most simply glossed "liar". pseustes (psyoos-tace') n. 1. a falsifier [from G5574]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G5583 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5583 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as liar and liars. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5583, with linked reader references where each row is available.