2001 Translation

PSEUDOS, pseudos

Sounds Like: PSEV-dos

Translations: lie, a lie, falsehood, a falsehood, untruth, an untruth

From the root: ΨΕΥΔΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to something that is not true, a deception, or an untruth. It is often used to describe a statement or belief that is intentionally false, or a state of being that is contrary to truth. It can be used in contexts referring to moral failings or the opposite of truth.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5579 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:206

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 20:2

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:1, 8:3, 8:19, 8:20
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 5:5, 11:5
• Psalms — 4:3, 5:7
• Proverbs — 24:22
• Job — 16:8
• Sirach — 7:12, 7:13, 20:24, 51:2
• Isaiah — 28:15, 44:20
• Jeremiah — 3:23, 15:18, 44:14
• John — 8:44
• Ephesians — 4:25
• 1 John — 2:21, 2:27
• Revelation — 14:5, 21:27, 22:15

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 13 — 11:312
• Book 18 — 4:85
• Book 19 — 1:34

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 25:4
• Book Seven — 11:11

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 65:336

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Judith — 5:5, 11:5
• Psalms — 4:3, 5:7
• Proverbs — 24:22
• Job — 16:9
• Sirach — 7:12, 7:13, 20:24, 51:2
• Isaiah — 28:15, 44:20
• Jeremiah — 3:23, 9:3, 44:14
• Ezekiel — 33:31
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:25, 11:23
• Hosea — 4:2
• Micah — 2:11

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 3 — 1:1, 1:3
• Mandate 8 — 1:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 15:2, 31:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 8:44
• Ephesians — 4:25
• 1 John — 2:21, 2:27
• Revelation — 14:5, 21:27, 22:15

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 5:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΨΕΥΔΟΣ.

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.

• ΤΟΨΕΥΔΟΣ — the lie, the falsehood, the untruth
• ΨΕΥ — false, untrue, lying, a lie, falsehood
• ΨΕΥΔ — false, a lie, untrue, falsehood, deceitful, a false thing
• ΨΕΥΔΕΣΙ — to lies, to falsehoods, to untruths
• ΨΕΥΔΕΣΙΝ — to lies, to falsehoods, to untruths
• ΨΕΥΔΟ — falsehood, a falsehood, lie, a lie, untruth, an untruth

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