ψευδής
false
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5571 appears in the Book of Acts — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ψευδης (pseudḗs) means “false.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Revelation (67%), then Acts. Scripture first uses it in Acts 6:13. It clusters with ψευδομαι, ψευδος and ψευσμα under a shared root. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5571 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 67%
- Acts 1 verse 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 2 verses · 67%
- Revelation 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Liars 2×
- American Standard Version: False 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Liars 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be false 1×, False 1×, Liars 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5571 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5571 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5571 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5571 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- lying, deceitful, false
Word origin
Derived from ψευδομαι (pseúdomai) (G5574) — to lie.
From G5574 ; untrue that is erroneous deceitful wicked : - false liar.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5571 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ψευδεῖς pseudeîs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 6:13 | 2 |
| ψευδέσιν pseudésin | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 21:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5571, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
- ψευδαδελφος pseudádelphos G5569 false brother
- ψευδαποστολος pseudapóstolos G5570 false apostle
- ψευδοδιδασκαλος pseudodidáskalos G5572 false teacher
- ψευδολογος pseudológos G5573 to teach falsely
- ψευδομαρτυρ pseudomártyr G5575 false witness
- ψευδοπροφητης pseudoprophḗtēs G5578 false prophet
- ψευδοχριστος pseudóchristos G5580 false Messiah
- ψευδωνυμος pseudṓnymos G5581 falsely named
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ψευδης appears 85 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 82 verses in 19 books.
- 85
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 82
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 20:16 ψευδής
- Deuteronomy 5:20 ψευδής
- Judges 16:10 ψευδής
- 1 Kings 22:22 ψευδής
- 2 Chronicles 18:21 ψευδής
- Job 24:25 ψευδής
- Psalms 32:17 ψευδής
- Proverbs 6:19 ψευδής
- Isaiah 30:9 ψευδής
- Jeremiah 5:2 ψευδής
- Ezekiel 12:24 ψευδής
- Daniel 2:9 ψευδής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5571) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 82. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 20:16 ψευδής "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 5:20 ψευδής "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Judges 16:10 ψευδής Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
- Judges 16:13 ψευδής Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
- 1 Kings 22:22 ψευδής Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 1 Kings 22:23 ψευδής Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
- 2 Chronicles 18:21 ψευδής He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 2 Chronicles 18:22 ψευδής Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
- 2 Chronicles 30:14 ψευδής They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
- Job 24:25 ψευδής If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?"
- Psalms 32:17 ψευδής
- Psalms 39:5 ψευδής Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Psalms 57:4 ψευδής My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
- Psalms 58:13 ψευδής
- Psalms 61:10 ψευδής
- Proverbs 6:19 ψευδής A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
- Proverbs 8:7 ψευδής For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Proverbs 12:22 ψευδής Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But those who do the truth are his delight.
- Proverbs 14:5 ψευδής A truthful witness will not lie, But a false witness pours out lies.
- Proverbs 14:25 ψευδής A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
- Proverbs 17:4 ψευδής An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
- Proverbs 17:7 ψευδής Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, Much less do lying lips fit a prince.
- Proverbs 19:5 ψευδής A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
- Proverbs 19:9 ψευδής A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
- Proverbs 21:6 ψευδής Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
- Proverbs 21:28 ψευδής A false witness will perish, And a man who listens speaks to eternity.
- Proverbs 23:3 ψευδής Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing they are deceitful food.
- Proverbs 24:2 ψευδής For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.
- Proverbs 24:28 ψευδής Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
- Proverbs 25:14 ψευδής As clouds and wind without rain, So is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
- Proverbs 25:18 ψευδής A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor Is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- Proverbs 26:28 ψευδής A lying tongue hates those it hurts; And a flattering mouth works ruin.
- Proverbs 28:6 ψευδής Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, Than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
- Proverbs 30:6 ψευδής Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
- Proverbs 30:8 ψευδής Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
- Proverbs 30:9 ψευδής Lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' Or lest I be poor, and steal, And so dishonor the name of my God.
- Proverbs 31:30 ψευδής Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
- Isaiah 30:9 ψευδής For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
- Jeremiah 5:2 ψευδής Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.
- Jeremiah 6:6 ψευδής For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 6:13 ψευδής For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
- Jeremiah 7:4 ψευδής Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
- Jeremiah 7:8 ψευδής Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
- Jeremiah 8:8 ψευδής How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
- Jeremiah 9:4 ψευδής Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
- Jeremiah 10:14 ψευδής Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 13:25 ψευδής This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
- Jeremiah 14:14 ψευδῆςψευδής Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
- Jeremiah 14:15 ψευδής Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
- Jeremiah 15:18 ψευδής Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5571) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
