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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.