Word Summary
pseudomartys: false witness
Original Word: ψευδόμαρτυςpseudomartys
Phonetic Spelling: (psyoo-dom-ar'-toor)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: false witness
Meaning: false witness
Strong's Concordance
false witness.
From pseudes and a kindred form of martus; a spurious witness, i.e. Bearer of untrue testimony -- false witness.
see GREEK pseudes
see GREEK martus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5575: ψευδομαρτυρψευδομαρτυρ, unless more correctly
ψευδόμαρτυς or rather
ψευδόμαρτυς (as
ἀυτομαρτυρ; see
Passow, under the word,
ψευδόμαρτυς (especially Lob. Paralip., p. 217; cf.
Etym. Magn. 506, 26)),
ψευδομαρτυρος,
ὁ, (
ψευδής and
μάρτυρ (which see)),
a false witness:
Matthew 26:60;
τοῦ θεοῦ, false witnesses of i. e. concerning God (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 1 a.),
1 Corinthians 15:15. (
Plato, Gorgias, p. 472b.;
Aristotle, pol. 2, 9, 8 (p. 1274b, 6; but the true reading here is
ψευδομαρτυριων (see Bentley's Works, Dyce edition, vol. i., p. 408); a better example is
Aristotle, rhet. ad Alex. 16, p. 1432{a}, 6; cf.
Plutarch, praec. ger. reip. 29, 1; Apostolic Constitutions 5, 9;
Pollux 6, 36, 153).)
STRONGS NT 5575: ψευδόμαρτυςψευδόμαρτυς, see ψευδομαρτυρ.