Pseudomai means “falsely” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5574 — cenuah (“Senuah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5574 ψεύδομαι (pseudomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pseudomai (psyoo'-dom-ai) v. 1. to utter a lie or attempt to deceive by falsehood [middle voice of an apparently primary verb] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include lie and falsely. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pseudomai (psyoo'-dom-ai) v. 1. to utter a lie or attempt to deceive by falsehood [middle voice of an apparently primary verb] KJV: falsely, lie Compare: G538, G4105
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to lie
Usage: ψεύδω to deceive by lies; more frequently in the depon. mid, form ψεύδομαι (so always in NT), [in LXX chiefly for כָּחַשׁ pi. ;] __1. absol., to lie: Heb.6:18, 1Jn.1:6, Rev.3:9; οὐ ψεύδομαι, Rom.9:1, 2Co.11:31, Gal.1:20, 1Ti.2:7 with dative of person(s) (Psa.18:45, Jhn.5:12, al.), Act.5:4; before εἰς, Col.3:9; κατά, Jas.3:14 (Hort, in l). __2. Like act., with accusative, to deceive by lies (Æsch., al.): Act.5:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pseudomai, 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 New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G5574 (ψεύδομαι) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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12 indexed usages in New Testament.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.
At the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: The strange children lied to me.
Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, And injustice has lied within herself.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5574.
And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.
At the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: The strange children lied to me.
Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, And injustice has lied within herself.
They only took counsel to set at nought mine honor: I ran in thirst: With their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.
Say unto God, How awful are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall lie to thee.
Yet they loved him only with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.
The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him: But their time shall be forever.
Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5574, grouped by book.
Pseudomai (Strong's G5574) is a Greek word most simply glossed "falsely". pseudomai (psyoo'-dom-ai) v. 1. to utter a lie or attempt to deceive by falsehood [middle voice of an apparently primary verb]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's G5574 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5574 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lie and falsely. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5574, with linked reader references where each row is available.