G5574 – pseudomai – ψεύδομαι to lie

Strong’s ID:
G5574
Greek Word:
ψεύδομαι
Transliteration:
pseudomai
Pronunciation:
psyoo’-dom-ahee
Part of Speech:
verb
Etymology:
middle voice of an apparently primary verb
Usage Count:
12
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Find “pseudomai” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

to lie

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood:—falsely, lie.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to lie, to speak deliberate falsehoods
2) to deceive one by a lie, to lie to

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.