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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - συκοφαντέω

συκοφαντέω

G4811

Transliteration: sykophantéō

Pronunciation: soo-kof-an-teh'-o

Definition: accuse falsely


- Original: συκοφαντέω

- Transliteration: Sukophanteo

- Phonetic: soo-kof-an-teh'-o

- Definition:

1. to accuse wrongfully, to calumniate, to attack by malicious devices

2. to exact money wrongfully

a. to extort from, defraud

- Origin: from a compound of G4810" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4810 and a derivative of G5316" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5316

- TDNT entry: 19:39,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From a compound of G4810" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4810 and a derivative of G5316" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5316; to be a fig informer (reporter of the law forbidding the exportation of figs from Greece) sycopant that is (generally and by extension) to defraud (exact unlawfully extort): - accuse falsely take by false accusation.


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