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G5577 ψευδομαρτυρία (pseudomartyría)
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Quick Definition

ψευδομαρτυρία, ας, ἡ n.f. false testimony

Strong's Definition

from 5575; untrue testimony

KJV Usage: false witness

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, f. | -ας | ψευδομαρτυρέω

33.272 · Communication · Witness, Testify

false testimony (derivative of ψευδομαρτυρέω ‘to testify falsely,’ 33.271) the content of what is testified falsely

MAT 15:19 · MAT 26:59

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ψευδο-μαρτυρία, -as, 7, (\revSouaprupew), false testimony, false witness: Mt. xv.19; xxvi.59. (Plat., Plut.; often in the Attic orators.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ψευδομαρτυρία pseudomartyria 2x

false witness, false testimony, Mt. 15:19; 26:59*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ψευδο-μαρτυρία, -ας, ἡ false witness: Mt 15:19 26:59.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ψευδομαρτυρία, “false witness.’’ The subst. ψευδομαρτύριον occurs sexies in P Hal J. 1 (mid. iii/B.c.), 6.6.1 ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ δικαστηρίου ἐπιφερέτω ὁ [εἰσ]αγωγεὺς ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ ψευδομαρτυρίου.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ψευδομαρτυρία (pseudomarturia) — false testimony. ψευδομαρτῠρ-ία, ἡ, false witness, [Refs 4th c.BC+] codices: but mostly in genitive plural, ψευδομαρτυριῶν διάκρισις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ιῶν ἑλεῖν τινα to convict, and ἁλῶναι to be convicted, of perjury, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -ιῶν ἐπισκήψασθαί τινι make allegation of perjury against one, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; etc. (This form is perhaps always corrupt in codices of classical authors; -ίων (genitive plural neuter, compare {ψευδομαρτυρίου}) should probably be read for -ιῶν, and may be restored for -ίαν in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; so -ίοις for -ίαις in [Refs 4th c.BC+] is unaccented in Papyrus of [Refs 4th c.BC+] is an uncertain restoration in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but the feminine form existed later, [NT]

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