ψευδής
pseudēs · false, lying
Greek word · Strong’s number G5571 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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pseudēs (ψευδής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “false, lying”.
A liar.
How to say it
pseu·dēs
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Saying what is not true.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- false ×2
- liars ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words that come from it
- ψευδοπροφήτης pseudoprophētēs · false prophet
- ψευδάδελφος pseudadelphos · false brother
- ψευδομάρτυρ pseudomartyr · false witness
- ψευδόχριστος pseudochristos · false messiah
- ψευδαπόστολος pseudapostolos · false apostle
- ψευδοδιδάσκαλος pseudodidaskalos · false teacher
- ψευδολόγος pseudologos · liar
- ψευδώνυμος pseudōnymos · falsely called
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 6:13
and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law;
- Revelation 2:2
I know your works, and your toil and your endurance, and that you cannot bear evil people, and that you have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them false;
- Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and detestable and murderers and the sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”