One who DOES NOT LIE, incapable of falsehood — a-, 'not', + pseudēs, 'lying' (the root of 'pseudo-'). It occurs only once in the New Testament, at Titus 1:2, of 'the God who does not lie', who promised eternal life 'before times eternal'. ⚠ The point is covenantal: a promise is only as good as the one who makes it, and the ground of the hope is that God cannot be false to his word — the same assurance as Hebrews 6:18, 'it is impossible for God to lie'. The Greek gods were notorious liars, and the Cretans of 1:12 proverbial ones; to call God apseudēs, three verses before quoting that slur, is to say the promise will hold where nothing human does. → first discussed at Titus 1:2