συκοφαντία
extortion, slander
Where this word appears
Every passage where συκοφαντία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 118:134 συκοφαντία Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep your commandments.
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 συκοφαντία So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:
- Ecclesiastes 5:7 συκοφαντία If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7 συκοφαντία As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.
- Amos 2:8 συκοφαντία And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.
About this word
About this word
συκοφαντία (sykophantía), “extortion, slander,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
