Definition

a spurious prophet, i.e. pretended foreteller or religious impostor

Etymology

from G5571 (ψευδής) and G4396 (προφήτης);

Word family

• ψευδής pseudḗs
• προφήτης prophḗtēs

How the KJV renders it

• false prophet

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.