ψευδαπόστολος
pseudapóstolos · G5570 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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false apostle
One who claims to be an apostle but is not
Examples2 Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
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.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πλάνος plános · G4108 · causing someone to be mistaken, deceitful, that which deceives
- πλάνος is a general term for a deceiver or impostor, which can overlap with ψευδαπόστολος in the sense of one who falsely claims religious authority, though πλάνος is broader and not specifically tied to apostolic claims.
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀπόστολος apóstolos · G652 · apostle, special messenger, messenger
- ἀπόστολος (genuine apostle) is the direct lexical opposite of ψευδαπόστολος (false/spurious apostle), contrasting authentic apostolic authority with fraudulent claims to it.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False apostle53.75
- 2 Corinthians 11:13 says, “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.”
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψευδαποστολου, ὁ (ψευδής and ἀπόστολος), a false apostle, one who falsely claims to be an…
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
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