Definition

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)

Etymology

from a compound of G4810 (σῦκον) and a derivative of G5316 (φαίνω);

Word family

• σῦκον sŷkon
• φαίνω phaínō

How the KJV renders it

• accuse falsely
• take by false accusation

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.