ψευδοπροφήτης

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ψευδο- (pseudo-, “false”) +‎ προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “prophet, interpreter”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pseu̯.do.pro.pʰɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psew.do.proˈpʰe̝.te̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pseβ.ðo.proˈɸi.tis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psev.ðo.proˈfi.tis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psev.ðo.proˈfi.tis/

Noun

ψευδοπροφήτης • (pseudoprophḗtēs) m (genitive ψευδοπροφήτου); first declension

false prophet
- New Testament, Second Epistle of Peter 2:1:
  Ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐν τῷ λαῷ, ὡς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσονται ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι
  Egénonto dè kaì pseudoprophêtai en tôi laôi, hōs kaì en humîn ésontai pseudodidáskaloi
  But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers.
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:15:
  Προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν, οἵτινες ἔρχονται πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν ἐνδύμασιν προβάτων, ἔσωθεν δέ εἰσιν λύκοι ἅρπαγες.
  Prosékhete apò tôn pseudoprophētôn, hoítines érkhontai pròs humâs en endúmasin probátōn, ésōthen dé eisin lúkoi hárpages.
  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ψευδοπροφήτης; τοῦ ψευδοπροφήτου (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ψευδοπροφήτης ho pseudoprophḗtēs	τὼ ψευδοπροφήτᾱ tṑ pseudoprophḗtā	οἱ ψευδοπροφῆται hoi pseudoprophêtai
Genitive	τοῦ ψευδοπροφήτου toû pseudoprophḗtou	τοῖν ψευδοπροφήταιν toîn pseudoprophḗtain	τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν tôn pseudoprophētôn
Dative	τῷ ψευδοπροφήτῃ tôi pseudoprophḗtēi	τοῖν ψευδοπροφήταιν toîn pseudoprophḗtain	τοῖς ψευδοπροφήταις toîs pseudoprophḗtais
Accusative	τὸν ψευδοπροφήτην tòn pseudoprophḗtēn	τὼ ψευδοπροφήτᾱ tṑ pseudoprophḗtā	τοὺς ψευδοπροφήτᾱς toùs pseudoprophḗtās
Vocative	ψευδοπροφῆτᾰ pseudoprophêta	ψευδοπροφήτᾱ pseudoprophḗtā	ψευδοπροφῆται pseudoprophêtai

Descendants

English: pseudoprophet
→ Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌿𐍃 (galiugapraufētus), 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌽𐌰𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌿𐍃 (liugnapraufētus) (calque)
Greek: ψευδοπροφήτης (psevdoprofítis)
Latin: pseudoprophēta
→ Russian: лжепроро́к (lžeprorók) (calque)

Further reading

“ψευδοπροφήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ψευδοπροφήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G5578 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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