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 Translation for 'false prophet' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a false prophet | false prophets
falsspámaður {k}false prophet
Partial Matches
spámaður {k}prophet
ósannur {adj}false
svikinn {adj}false
rangur {adj}false
vörusvik {hv.ft}false advertising
víxlspor {hv}false step
falsvon {kv}false hope
falsguð {k}false god
mál.
falsvinur {k}
false friend
öfugmæli {hv}false statement
gras.T
úlfareynir {k} [Sorbus x hostii]
false medlar
falskur {adj}false [fake]
uppgerðarkurteisi {kv}false politeness
falskur {adj}false [bogus]
uppgerðarhæverska {kv}false modesty
íþr.
þjófstart {hv}
false start
tölfr.
röng jákvæð niðurstaða {kv}
false positive result
tölfr.
röng neikvæð niðurstaða {kv}
false negative result
íþr.
þjófstarta
to make a false start
bibl.
bera ljúgvitni
to bear false witness [dated]
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Usage Examples English
  • The song False Prophet by Bob Dylan includes the line: "I climbed a mountain of swords on my bare feet", a reference to a Gateless Gate kōan ("You must climb a mountain of swords with bare feet").
  • His version was entitled "Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete" ("The law of Mahomet the false prophet").
  • The Ascension of Isaiah, a pseudepigraphical Christian text dated to sometime between the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 3rd, gives a detailed story of Isaiah confronting an evil false prophet and ending with Isaiah being martyred – none of which is attested in the original Biblical account.
  • Lucian often ridiculed public figures, such as the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus in his letter "The Passing of Peregrinus" and the fraudulent oracle Alexander of Abonoteichus in his treatise "Alexander the False Prophet".
  • The satirist Lucian devoted an essay to Alexander the false prophet.

  • The claim here is that Elymas is trying to turn Sergius Paulus from the true faith, just like the false prophet described in the preceding verses.
  • He then told them in Arabic that Muhammed was a false prophet and that he was an immoral man for supposedly seducing his adopted son's wife.
  • The Pure Church of Christ was organized in 1831 in Kirtland, Ohio, by Wycam Clark, Northrop Sweet, and four others who claimed that LDS founder Joseph Smith was a false prophet.
  • Following the defeat of Gog, the last judgment begins: "The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever" 20:10.
  • A man also named Balaam also figures as an example of a false prophet motivated by greed or avarice in both 2 Peter 2:15 and in Jude 1:11.

  • Jesus has predicted all this will happen so Mark might be using this ironically to have Jesus condemned as a false prophet at the same moment his prophecies are coming true (Brown "et al." ...
  • In March 1885, he was removed from command and imprisoned at Gibraltar, when British forces suspected that he might have negotiated fealty to Ahmad, the "false prophet", based on alleged correspondence between them.
  • The Imposter: Unnamed – a false prophet (from ambition, rather than fanaticism) who creates a radical religious sect in opposition to Adrian while in France.
  • For this project, Robert translated a history of the early Caliphate under the title "Chronica mendosa Saracenorum" (Lying Chronicle of the Saracens) and the Quran itself under the title "Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete" (Law of the False Prophet Muhammad).
  • Barton was viewed as a false prophet who was encouraged to profess fake revelations to persuade others to go against the monarchy.

  • of Hellenistic Judaism see that Jesus' failure to establish the Kingdom of God and his death at the hands of the Romans invalidated any messianic claims (see for comparison: "prophet" and "false prophet").
  • "Ultima VI: The False Prophet" (1990) details the invasion of Britannia by Gargoyles, which the Avatar and his companions have to repel.
  • In an 8th-century polemical work, John of Damascus criticized the Saracens as followers of a false prophet and "forerunner[...] to the Antichrist," and further connected their name to Ishmael and his expulsion.
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