The corpus record

ψευδομάρτυς

pseudomartus · ὁ

false witness

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Where it lives

Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant — LSJ

false witness, false witnesses, for false witness, attesting no real

false witness, pl. in Gorg. Pal. 23, Pl. Grg. 472b, Critias 61: sg., IG 5(2).357.4 (Stymphalus, iii B.C.): ψευδομάρτυρες τοῦ θεοῦ false witnesses about God, 1 Ep.Cor. 15.15; as Adj., τὰν δίκαν τὰν ψευδομάρτυρα the action for false witness, IG l.c. l. 8; ψ. τιμαί honours attesting no real merit, Plu. Praec. 2.821f.

In the wild

ψευδομάρτυρες · pseudomartyres New Testament, 1 Corinthians 15.14 (DIORISIS sentence 459)
ψευδομάρτυρας · pseudomartyras Plato, Gorgias 472
ψευδομάρτυρας · pseudomartyras Septuaginta, Susanna (LXX) (DIORISIS sentence 25)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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