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ψεῦσμα

pseûsma · G5582 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lie, falsehood

    (Derivative of ψεύδομαι ‘to lie,’) The content of a false utterance

    Examples

    Romans 3:7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Lie, falsehood33.254
Romans 3:7 asks, “if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?”
Word family 16 words

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

ψεύδομαι pseúdomai · G5574 · to lie, to tell falsehoods · 12×ψευδοπροφήτης 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×ψεῦσμαpseûsma · G5582
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψευσματος, τό (ψεύδω), a falsehood, a lie (Plato, Meno, p. 71 d.; Plato, Lucian; the…
ψευσματος, τό (ψεύδω), a falsehood, a lie (Plato, Meno, p. 71 d.; Plato, Lucian; the Sept.); specifically, the perfidy by which a man by sinning breaks faith with God, Rom 3:7.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Speak Truth, Speak Falsehood1 occurrence

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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