adjective
pseudēsos
Strong’sG5571
false, deceitful, lying
stem pseudēs-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ψευδής, -ές
(< ψεύδομαι), [in LXX for שֶׁקֶר, שָׁוְא, כָּזָב; etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5571 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpsyoo-dace'
untrue, i.e. erroneous, deceitful, wicked
Fromfrom G5574;
King Jamesfalse, liar.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(the neuter singular ψευδές is not found in early writers, ψεῦδος being used instead, compare ψεῦδος 111; it is found in later Gr., Refs 1st c.AD+; old Attic dialect accusative plural ψευδᾶς Refs: (ψεύδομαι):— lying, false, untrue, of things, opposed to ἀληθής, ψ. λόγοι Refs 8th c.BC+; τρέπεσθαι ἐπὶ ψευδέα ὁδόν to betake oneself to falsehood, Refs 5th c.BC+; ψ. κατηγορία, αἰτίαι, false charges, Refs 5th c.BC+ are also fallacies, in Logic, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἥδε ἡ ψ. οὐσία this unreal Being (i.e. the world of sense), Refs 3rd c.AD+: irregular superlative ψευδίστατος, εἴδη Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 of persons, lying, false, and as substantive, liar, οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ ψευδέσσι πατὴρ Ζεὺς ἔσσετ᾽ ἀρωγός Refs 8th c.BC+; perhaps ψεύδεσσι from ψεῦδοςRefs 5th c.BC+; ψ. φανήσεσθαι to be detected in falsehood, Refs 5th c.BC+: irregular superlative ψευδίστατος arrant liar, Refs
3 τὰ ψευδῆ falsehoods, lies, οὐ ψευδῆ λέγω Refs 5th c.BC+
4 ψευδέων ἀγορή, in Refs 5th c.BC+. ή, ιβ, said to be a name of the monkey-market, perhaps as being villanous counterfeits of humanity.
II passive, beguiled, deceived, Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb ψευδῶς falsely, λέγειν Refs 5th c.BC+; mistakenly, ψ. δοξάζειν Refs 5th c.BC+groundlessly, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pseudēsos | pseudēsas | pseudēsem | pseudēsois | pseudēsais | pseudēseim |
| object accusative | pseudēson | pseudēsan | pseudēsoin2×ψευδεῖς | pseudēsain | ||
| direct address vocative | pseudēsor | pseudēsar | pseudēsoir | pseudēsair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | pseudēsou | pseudēsau | pseudēseu | pseudēsoiu | pseudēsaiu | pseudēseiu |
| to, for dative | pseudēso | pseudēsa | pseudēse | pseudēsoi1×ψευδέσιν | pseudēsai | pseudēsei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pseudēs is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
pseudēsoin“false”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 6:13stēala tē marturoin pseudēsoin legarōntoin; Tos anthrōpos houtos ouk pauotō …where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never …
Revelation 2:2“false”… kai ouk alō, kai heuriskasa autoin pseudēsoin;… those who are evil, and …
pseudēsoi“liars”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 21:8… farmakoi kai eidōlolatroi kai pantoi toi pseudēsoi tem merem autoiu en ta limna …… and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the …