Greek verb · G4811
συκοφαντέω
sykophanteosoo-kof-an-teh'-o
to extort
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sykophantéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4811is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4811
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)
The King James renders it: accuse falsely, take by false accusation.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sykophanteo is rendered "to extort". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Luke 3:14συκοφαντήσητε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I have defrauded1
- may accuse falsely1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σῦκον | sykon | fig | Uses4 |
| συκομωραία | sykomoraia | sycamore tree | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐσυκοφάντησα1
- συκοφαντήσητε1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-AAS-2P
Luke
two uses
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- συκοφαντήσητεsukophanteseteverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: may accuse falsely
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”
- ἐσυκοφάντησαesukophantesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have defrauded
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.