πλαστός
plastós · G4112 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
-
false, made-up, invented
(Derivative of πλάσσω ‘to form, to make,’) Pertaining to being false in view of being made-up or fabricated
Examples2 Peter 2:3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Near synonyms 2 words
- ψευδής pseudḗs · G5571 · liar
- ψευδής focuses on the quality of being false or untrue as a characteristic, while πλαστός emphasizes the fabricated or invented nature of something (that it was artificially constructed/moulded rather than genuine)
- ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood
- ψεῦδος is a noun denoting a lie or falsehood as an entity, while πλαστός is an adjective describing something as fabricated or fictitious; both convey falsity but from different grammatical and conceptual angles
Contrasting words 2 words
- ἀληθής alēthḗs · G227 · true, truth, real
- ἀληθής (true, genuine, real) stands as the direct lexical opposite to πλαστός (false, fictitious, fabricated); what is ἀληθής corresponds to reality, while what is πλαστός is artificially constructed or invented
- ἀληθινός alēthinós · G228 · real, really, true
- ἀληθινός (genuine, real, authentic) contrasts with πλαστός as the genuine versus the fabricated; ἀληθινός emphasizes authenticity and reality as opposed to what is artificially moulded or made up
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False, made-up, invented72.11
- πλαστός describes speech deliberately invented rather than true. Peter warns of false teachers: “and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep” (2 Peter 2:3).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλαστη, πλαστον (πλάσσω); 1. properly, moulded, formed, as from clay, wax, stone (Hesiod,…
1. properly, moulded, formed, as from clay, wax, stone (Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, others).
2. tropically, feigned: 2 Pet 2:3 ((Herodotus 1, 68), Euripides, Xenophon, Lucian, others).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.