Sukophanteo denotes wrongfully obtaining something from others, whether prohibited in instruction or confessed as requiring repayment.

The attested use concerns wrongful acquisition from another person: it is forbidden in an instruction to soldiers in Luke 3:14 and acknowledged as conduct requiring fourfold repayment in Luke 19:8.

1. Wrongfully taking from another · dominant

   In Luke 3:14, the second-person plural aorist active subjunctive occurs in a prohibition addressed to soldiers; the APB renders the surrounding instruction, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation." In Luke 19:8, the first-person singular aorist active indicative occurs in Zacchaeus's conditional confession of having taken something from anyone, followed by a promise of fourfold repayment; the APB renders this clause, "if I have extorted anything from anyone, I pay it back fourfold."

   Luke 3:14Luke 19:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses "extort" in both verses, placing the action within a prohibition in Luke 3:14 and a confession with repayment in Luke 19:8. These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than isolate every aspect of the Greek form.