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Lexicon :: Strong's G5578 - pseudoprophētēs

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ψευδοπροφήτης
Transliteration
pseudoprophētēs (Key)
Pronunciation
psyoo-dop-rof-ay'-tace
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:781,952

Strong’s Definitions

ψευδοπροφήτης pseudoprophḗtēs, psyoo-dop-rof-ay'-tace; from G5571 and G4396; a spurious prophet, i.e. pretended foreteller or religious impostor:—false prophet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G5578 in the following manner: false prophet (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G5578 in the following manner: false prophet (11x).

  1. one who, acting the part of a divinely inspired prophet, utters falsehoods under the name of divine prophecies

  2. a false prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ψευδοπροφήτης pseudoprophḗtēs, psyoo-dop-rof-ay'-tace; from G5571 and G4396; a spurious prophet, i.e. pretended foreteller or religious impostor:—false prophet.
STRONGS G5578:
ψευδοπροφήτης, ψευδοπροφήτου, ὁ (ψευδής and προφήτης), "one who, acting the part of a divinely inspired prophet, utters falsehoods under the name of divine prophecies, a false prophet": Matthew 7:15; Matthew 24:11, 24; Mark 13:22; Luke 6:26; Acts 13:6; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 4:1; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10. (Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 33:8, 11, 16 (Jer. 26:8,11,16); Jeremiah 34:7 (Jer. 27:7); Jeremiah 36:1, 8 (Jer. 29:1,8; Zechariah 13:2; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 1; 10, 7, 3; b. j. 6, 5, 2; (τόν τοιοῦτον ἐυθυβόλω ὀνόματι ψευδοπροφήτην προσαγορευει, κιβδηλευοντα τήν ἀληθῆ προφητείαν καί τά γνησια νοθοις ἑυρημασι ἐπισκιαζοντα κτλ., Philo de spec. legg. iii. § 8); ecclesiastical writings ('Teaching' 11, 5 [ET] etc. (where see Harnack)); Greek writers use ψευδόμαντις.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jeremiah
6:13; 26:8; 26:11; 26:16; 27:7; 29:1; 29:8; 33:8; 33:11; 33:16; 34:7; 36:1; 36:8
Zechariah
13:2
Matthew
7:15; 24:11; 24:24
Mark
13:22
Luke
6:26
Acts
13:6
2 Peter
2:1
1 John
4:1
Revelation
16:13; 19:20; 20:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5578 matches the Greek ψευδοπροφήτης (pseudoprophētēs),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:13

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For from the least to the greatest of them,

everyone is making profit dishonestly.

From prophet to priest,

everyone deals falsely.

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The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of the LORD.

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When he finished the address the LORD had commanded him to deliver to all the people, immediately the priests, the prophets, and all the people took hold of him, yelling, “You must surely die!

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Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

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Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God! ”

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“So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, fortune-tellers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘Don’t serve the king of Babylon! ’

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In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon said to me in the temple of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people,

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This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining exiled elders, the priests, the prophets, and all the people Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,

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“On that day” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will banish the prophets[fn] and the unclean spirit from the land.

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