Lexicon sukophanteó: to accuse falsely Original Word: συκοφαντέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sukophanteó Phonetic Spelling: (soo-kof-an-teh'-o) Short Definition: I accuse falsely, defraud Definition: I accuse falsely, defraud. HELPS word-Studies 4811 sykophantéō (from 4810 /sýkon, "a fig" and 5316 /phaínō, "make known") – properly, a "fig-informer" using "inside information" to defraud (falsely accuse). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom sukon and phainóDefinitionto accuse falsely NASB Translationaccuse...falsely (1), defrauded (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4811: συκοφαντέωσυκοφαντέω, συκοφάντω; 1 aorist ἐσυκοφάντησα; (from συκοφάντης, and this from σῦκον 'fig', and φαίνω 'to show'. At Athens those were called συκοφανται whose business it was to inform against anyone whom they might detect exporting figs out of Attica; and as sometimes they seem to have extorted money from those loath to he exposed, the name συκοφάντης from the time of Aristophanes down was a general term of opprobrium to designate a malignant informer, a calumniator; a malignant and base accuser from love of gain (but cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word); hence, the verb συκοφάντω signifies) 1. to accuse wrongfully, to calumniate, to attack by malicious devices (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others). 2. to exact money wrongfully; to extort from, defraud: Luke 3:14 (here R. V. margin accuse wrongfully); with a genitive of the person and accusative of the thing, Luke 19:8 (τριάκοντα μνᾶς παρά τίνος Lysias, p. 177, 32. The Sept. for עָשַׁק, to oppress, defraud, Job 35:9; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalm 118:122 (); πένητα, Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 22:16; πτωχούς, Proverbs 28:3).
Strong's accuse falsely, take by false accusation. From a compound of sukon and a derivative of phaino; to be a fig-informer (reporter of the law forbidding the exportation of figs from Greece), "sycophant", i.e. (genitive and by extension) to defraud (exact unlawfully, extort) -- accuse falsely, take by false accusation. see GREEK sukon see GREEK phaino |
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