Original: συκοφαντέω

Transliteration: sykophantéō

Phonetic: soo-kof-an-teh'-o

Short Definition: Accuse falsely

- 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.

Cognate: G4807, G4808, G4809, G4810