Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
false
Usage: ψευδής, -ές (ψεύδομαι), [in LXX for שֶׁקֶר, שָׁוְא, כָּזָב; etc. ;] lying, false, untrue (of persons and things): Rev.2:2; μάρτυρες, Act.6:13; as subst., ὁ ψ., a liar: Rev.21:8.† (AS)
Pseudes means “false” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5571 — canballat (“Sanballat”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5571 ψευδής (pseudes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pseudes (psyoo-dace') adj. 1. false, untrue 2. (by extension) erroneous, deceitful, wicked It has 111 linked Bible usages across 29 books. Visible English usage signals include liars and false. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
pseudes (psyoo-dace') adj. 1. false, untrue 2. (by extension) erroneous, deceitful, wicked [from G5574] KJV: false, liar Root(s): G5574
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false
Usage: ψευδής, -ές (ψεύδομαι), [in LXX for שֶׁקֶר, שָׁוְא, כָּזָב; etc. ;] lying, false, untrue (of persons and things): Rev.2:2; μάρτυρες, Act.6:13; as subst., ὁ ψ., a liar: Rev.21:8.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pseudes, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 1 Enoch, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5571 (ψευδής) appears 112 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
83 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith thou shalt be bound.
21 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
Now when there was gone forth a false rumor, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle:
4 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their)
Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through visions in their dreams.
First 111 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5571.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith thou shalt be bound.
And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I entreat thee, wherewith thou mayest be bound: and he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and shouldest fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him, yea, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.
And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against thee.
And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.
And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against thee.
And they arose, and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all on which they burned incense to false gods they tore down and cast into the brook Kidron.
But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, And will make my words of no account?
A horse is vain for safety; Neither shall he be delivered by the greatness of his power.
Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, And who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: They go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, Let them be even taken in their pride.
But the sons of men are vain; The sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; They are all alike formed out of vanity.
And brings on quarrels between brethren.
For my throat shall meditate truth; And false lips are an abomination before me.
But he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.
A faithful witness does not lie; But an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.
A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: But a deceitful man kindles falsehoods.
A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: But a righteous man attends not to false lips.
Nor lying lips a just man.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, And he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.
He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue Pursues vanity on to the snares of death.
A false witness shall perish; But an obedient man will speak cautiously.
desire not his provisions; For these belong to a false life.
For their heart meditates falsehoods, And their lips speak mischiefs.
fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.
Add not to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be made a liar.
Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:
lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
Charms are false, and woman’s beauty is vain: For it is a wise woman that is blessed, And let her praise the fear of the Lord.
For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:
The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.
For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.
Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;
How will ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Thus is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.
Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.
O Lord, thou art my strength, and my help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
And thou and all the dwellers in thy house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt die in Babylon, and there thou and all thy friends shall be buried, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.
How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.
Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.
for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
But Gedaliah said to Johanan, Do not the thing, for thou speakest lies concerning Ishmael.
For there shall no more be any false vision, nor anyone prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.
In the day of the Lord, have not stood, seeing false visions, prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord saith, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word.
Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?
And therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord.
And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
therefore ye shall not see false visions, and ye shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
While thou art seeing vain visions, and while thou art prophesying falsehoods, to bring thyself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, even an end, in a season of iniquity.
And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.
If then ye do not tell me the dream, I know that ye have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that ye will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.
And as for both the kings, their hearts are set upon mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a fixed time.
When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber spoiling in his way;
Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.
and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.
Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? ye have eaten false fruit; for thou hast trusted in thy sins, in the abundance of thy power.
If Gilead exists not, then the chiefs in Gilead when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false Sabbaths;
They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.
whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?
O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.
What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.
For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.
And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
Now when there was gone forth a false rumor, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle:
And left him not in bonds, Till she brought him the scepter of the kingdom, And power against those that oppressed him: As for them that had accused him, she showed them to be liars, And gave him perpetual glory.
For either they are mad when they be merry, or prophesy lies, Or live unjustly, or else lightly forswear themselves.
The disposition of a liar is dishonorable, And his shame is ever with him.
Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, And the care thereof driveth away sleep.
The poor laboreth in his poor estate; And when he leaveth off, he is still needy.
Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, And hath not gone after gold.
Fill Zion with thine unspeakable oracles, And thy people with thy glory.
Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: And of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;
From the depth of the belly of hell, From an unclean tongue, and from lying words.
For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.
Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.
For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:
Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong do take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.
the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their)
Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through visions in their dreams.
day and night, see all your sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of your
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5571, grouped by book.
Pseudes (Strong's G5571) is a Greek word most simply glossed "false". pseudes (psyoo-dace') adj. 1. false, untrue 2. (by extension) erroneous, deceitful, wicked
This page currently indexes 111 linked usages for Strong's G5571 across 29 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5571 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as liars and false. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 83 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 21 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 4 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5571, with linked reader references where each row is available.