ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΟΙ, καταψευδομενοι
KATAPSEUDOMENOI, katapseudomenoi
Sounds Like: kah-tah-psef-DOH-meh-noy
Translations: lying against, falsely accusing, slandering, those who lie against, those who falsely accuse
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the preposition κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against', and the verb ψεύδομαι (pseudomai), meaning 'to lie' or 'to deceive'. Therefore, it means 'to lie against' or 'to bear false witness against someone'. It describes the act of making false statements with the intent to harm or accuse another person.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive Voice, Participle, Nominative Case, Masculine Gender, Plural Number
Strong’s number: G2680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 5:18
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΕΣΘΑΙ — to lie against, to accuse falsely, to bear false witness against, to speak falsely against
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΕΣΘΕ — to lie against, to bear false witness against, to accuse falsely, to slander
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΕΤΑΙ — to lie against, to accuse falsely, to bear false witness, to calumniate
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΗ — you lie against, you accuse falsely, you bear false witness against
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΑΣ — falsely accusing, slandering, lying against
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΟΝ — lying against, falsely accusing, slandering, bearing false witness
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΟΣ — falsely accusing, slandering, lying against, bearing false witness against
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ — having lied against, having falsely accused, having borne false witness against
- ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΣΑΜΕΝΟΥΣ — having lied against, having falsely accused, having borne false witness against
- ΚΑΤΕΨΕΥΔΟΝΤΟ — they lied against, they bore false witness against, they falsely accused
- ΚΑΤΕΨΕΥΣΑΝΤΟ — they lied against, they falsely accused, they bore false witness against
- ΚΑΤΕΨΕΥΣΑΤΟ — he lied against, he falsely accused, he bore false witness against
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