Word

ψεύδομαι

pseúdomai · G5574 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

to lie, to tell falsehoods

To communicate what is false, with the evident purpose of misleading

Examples
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the proceeds of the land?
Acts 5:4 “While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.”
Romans 9:1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

12 occurrences in 8 groups

Not stated: I 4
Not stated: you (more than one) 2
θεόςGod 1
σύyou 1
Not stated: we 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 4 groups

πᾶςall, every, each 2
ἔνιto be 1
πνεῦμαspirit 1
πονηρόςevil, wicked, bad 1

To or for whomIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 4 groups

εἰςto+ ἀλλήλωνeach other, one another 1
ἕνεκαbecause of, for the sake of+ ἐγώI, we 1
κατάaccording to, against, down+ ἀλήθειαtruth 1
κατάaccording to, against, down+ σύyou 1

With adverbsAdverbs

5 occurrences in 2 groups

οὐnot 4
μήnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

λέγωto say 2
εἴδωto know 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀδύνατοςimpossible, unable 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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Contrasting words 1 word

ἀλήθεια alḗtheia · G225 · truth, actually, really: The target, ψεύδομαι ('to lie, to tell falsehoods'), and ἀλήθεια ('truth') form a genuine lexical antonym pair — the act of lying stands in direct opposition to the quality of truth or conformity to reality. This is a straightforward case of lexical opposition between an action and the quality it violates, one being a verb of speech and the other a noun of quality.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To lie, to tell falsehoods33.253: Romans 9:1 says, “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit.”

Word family 16 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ψεύδομαιpseúdomai · G5574ψευδοπροφήτης pseudoprophḗtēs · G5578 · false prophet · 11×ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood · 10×ψεύστης pseústēs · G5583 · liar · 10×ψευδομαρτυρέω pseudomartyréō · G5576 · to give false witness, to testify falsely · 5×ψευδής pseudḗs · G5571 · liar · 3×ψευδάδελφος pseudádelphos · G5569 · false brother · 2×ψευδομάρτυρ pseudomártyr · G5575 · false witness · 2×ψευδομαρτυρία pseudomartyría · G5577 · false testimony · 2×ψευδόχριστος pseudóchristos · G5580 · false Christ, false Messiah · 2×ἀψευδής apseudḗs · G893 · truthful · 1×ψευδαπόστολος pseudapóstolos · G5570 · false apostle · 1×ψευδοδιδάσκαλος pseudodidáskalos · G5572 · false teacher, teacher of what is a lie · 1×ψευδολόγος pseudológos · G5573 · liar · 1×ψευδώνυμος pseudṓnymos · G5581 · falsely called, falsely named · 1×ψεῦσμα pseûsma · G5582 · lie, falsehood · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἐψευσάμην; (deponent middle of ψεύδω (allied with ψιθυρίζω etc. (Vanicek, p.…

1 aorist ἐψευσάμην; (deponent middle of ψεύδω (allied with ψιθυρίζω etc. (Vanicek, p. 1195)) 'to deceive', 'cheat'; hence, properly, to show oneself deceitful, to play false); from Homer down; to lie, to speak deliberate falsehoods: Heb 6:18; 1 Jn 1:6; Rev 3:9; οὐ ψεύδομαι, Rom 9:1; 2 Cor 11:31; Gal 1:20; 1 Tim 2:7; τινα, to deceive one by a lie, to lie to (Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plutarch, others): Acts 5:3; like verbs of saying, with a dative of the person (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 5; Buttmann, § 133, 1; Green, p. 100f), Acts 5:4 (Psalm 17:45; Psalm 77:36; Psalm 88:36; Josh 24:27; (Jer 5:12), etc.); εἰς τινα, Col 3:9; κατά τίνος, against one, Mt 5:11 (L G omit; Tr marginal reading brackets ψευδόμενοι; others connect καθ' ὑμῶν with εἴπωσι and make ψευδόμενοι a simple adjunct of mode (A. V. falsely)); κατά τῆς ἀληθείας, Jas 3:14 (here Tdf. makes ψεύδεσθε absolutely; cf. Winers Grammar, 470 (438) n. 3). (The Sept. for כִּחִשׁ and כִּזֵּב.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Speak Truth, Speak Falsehood12 occurrences

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