- Original: συκοφαντέω
- Transliteration: Sukophanteo
- Phonetic: soo-kof-an-teh'-o
- Definition:
1. to accuse wrongfully, to calumniate, to attack by malicious devices
2. to exact money wrongfully
a. to extort from, defraud
- Origin: from a compound of
G4810 and a derivative of
G5316
- TDNT entry: 19:39,1
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: From a compound of
G4810 and a derivative of
G5316 ; to be a fig informer (reporter of the law forbidding the exportation of figs from Greece) sycopant that is (generally and by extension) to defraud (exact unlawfully extort): - accuse falsely take by false accusation.
Total KJV Occurrences: 2
• accusation, 1
Luke 19:8
• falsely, 1
Luke 3:14