ψευδής
pseudḗs · G5571 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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liar
(Derivative of ψεύδομαι ‘to lie,’) One who utters falsehoods and lies
ExamplesActs 6:13 They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking against this holy place and the Law;
Revelation 2:2 ‘I know your deeds and your labor and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people, and you have put those who call themselves apostles to the test, and they are not, and you found them to be false;
Revelation 21:8 “But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
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In the other Testament 2 words
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- Hebrew שֶׁקֶר and Greek ψευδής both denote falsehood and deceit as their core sense, and the Greek term is used directly to render this Hebrew concept across deception and lying contexts in the biblical corpus.
- שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ · H7723 · falsehood, deceit, deceitfulness
- שָׁוְא (shâvᵉʼ, H7723) is the Hebrew equivalent denoting falsehood, emptiness, and deceitful worthlessness, directly corresponding to ψευδής (pseudḗs, G5571)'s semantic range of untruth and deception.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Liar33.255
- Revelation 21:8 lists among those whose part will be in the lake of fire, “the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars”.
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψευδές (ψεύδομαι), from Homer, Iliad4, 235 down, lying, deceitful, false: Rev 2:2;…
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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