ψευδώνυμος
pseudṓnymos · G5581 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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falsely called, falsely named
Pertaining to being falsely or wrongly called by a name
Examples1 Timothy 6:20 Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
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.
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Contrasting words 2 words
- ἀληθής alēthḗs · G227 · true, truth, real
- ἀληθής means 'true' or 'truthful' and represents the lexical opposite of 'falsely named' (ψευδώνυμος). Something that is ἀληθής is genuinely what it claims to be, in direct contrast to something ψευδώνυμος which bears a false name or designation.
- ἀληθινός alēthinós · G228 · real, really, true
- ἀληθινός means 'genuine' or 'real' and functions as a lexical opposite to ψευδώνυμος. While something ψευδώνυμος is falsely named or spurious, something ἀληθινός is authentically what it is called, truly bearing its name.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Falsely called, falsely named33.130
- 1 Timothy 6:20 urges Timothy to protect what has been entrusted to him, “avoiding worldly, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’”.
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψευδωνυμον (ψεῦδος (ψευδής, rather) and ὄνομα), falsely named (A. V. falsely so called):…
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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