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Strong's G5579 ψεῦδος (pseudos)

Pseudos means “lie” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5579 — cenappir (“fins”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5579
Language Greek
Linked Usages 34
Books 17

Strong's G5579 Quick Answer

Strong's G5579 ψεῦδος (pseudos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pseudos (psyoo`-dos) n. 1. a lie, falsehood [from G5574] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include lie and lying. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
pseudos (psyoo`-dos) n. 1. a lie, falsehood [from G5574]
Usage
34 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
lie and lying

Meaning and Definition

pseudos (psyoo`-dos) n. 1. a lie, falsehood [from G5574] KJV: lie, lying Root(s): G5574

Original Word
ψεῦδος
Transliteration
pseudos
Derivation
Root: ψεύδομαι R1: 5574
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5579. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

lie

Usage: ψεῦδος, -εος (-ους), τό [in LXX chiefly for שֶׁקֶר, also for כַּחַשׁ, כָּזָב ;] a falsehood, untruth, lie: Rev.14:15; opposite to ἡ ἀλήθεια, Jhn.8:44, Rom.1:25, Eph.4:25, 2Th.2:11, 1Jn.2:21; to τὸ ἀληθές, 1Jn.2:27; ποιεῖν ψ., Rev.21:27 22:15; ἐν πάσῃ δυνάμει κ. σημείοις κ. τέρασιν ψεύδους (genitive qual., see M, Th., 104; and on the meaning and construction, see also ICC, in l), 2Th.2:9.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5579 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pseudos, 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.

lie John 8:44 lying Ephesians 4:25

How Strong's G5579 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 19 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5579 (ψεῦδος) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5579 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G5579 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

John 8:44 KJV

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Romans 1:25 KJV

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Ephesians 4:25 KJV

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Strong's G5579 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Job 16:8 Septuagint / Brenton

My falsehood has become a testimony, And has risen up against me: It has confronted me to my face.

Psalms 4:3 Septuagint / Brenton

O ye sons of men, how long will ye be slow of heart? Wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

Psalms 5:7 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: The Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

Strong's G5579 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 5:5 Septuagint / Brenton

Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.

Judith 11:5 Septuagint / Brenton

Then Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant, and suffer thy handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.

Wisdom of Sirach 7:12 Septuagint / Brenton

Devise not a lie against thy brother; Neither do the like to thy friend.

Usage Excerpts

First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5579.

Job 16:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My falsehood has become a testimony, And has risen up against me: It has confronted me to my face.
Psalms 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O ye sons of men, how long will ye be slow of heart? Wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.
Psalms 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: The Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.
Isaiah 28:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
Isaiah 28:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cause judgment to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,
Isaiah 30:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this respect:
Isaiah 44:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.
Jeremiah 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.
Jeremiah 3:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah 9:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 44:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, It is false; I do not flee to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Irijah caught Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jeremiah 50:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that Azariah son of Hoshaiah spoke, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremiah, saying, It is false: the Lord has not sent thee to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there:
Ezekiel 33:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.
Hosea 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
Hosea 7:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
Hosea 12:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness: but now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.
Micah 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
ye have fled, no one pursuing you: thy spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on thee for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,
Zechariah 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring it forth, saith the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.
Malachi 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.
John 8:44 New Testament, KJV
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 1:25 New Testament, KJV
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Ephesians 4:25 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 New Testament, KJV
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:11 New Testament, KJV
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
1 John 2:21 New Testament, KJV
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1 John 2:27 New Testament, KJV
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Revelation 21:27 New Testament, KJV
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:15 New Testament, KJV
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Judith 5:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
Judith 11:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant, and suffer thy handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Devise not a lie against thy brother; Neither do the like to thy friend.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Use not to make any manner of lie: For the custom thereof is not good.
Wisdom of Sirach 20:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A lie is a foul blot in a man, Yet it is continually in the mouth of the untaught.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art my defender and helper, And hast preserved my body from destruction, And from the snare of the slanderous tongue, And from the lips that forge lies, And hast been my helper against mine adversaries:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5579, grouped by book.

Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 2 usages, New Testament
1 John 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5579 FAQ

What does pseudos (ψεῦδος) mean?

Pseudos (Strong's G5579) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lie". pseudos (psyoo`-dos) n. 1. a lie, falsehood [from G5574]

How many times is pseudos (ψεῦδος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G5579 across 17 books.

Where can I study pseudos (ψεῦδος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5579 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate pseudos (ψεῦδος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lie and lying. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5579 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5579, with linked reader references where each row is available.