Strong's Concordance hupokrités: one who answers, an actor, a hypocrite Original Word: ὑποκριτής, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: hupokrités Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok-ree-tace') Short Definition: a hypocrite, dissembler Definition: (lit: a stage-player), a hypocrite, dissembler, pretender. HELPS Word-studies 5273 hypokritḗs (a masculine noun derived from 5259 /hypó, "under" and 2919 /krínō, "judge") – properly, a judging under, like a performer acting under a mask (i.e. a theater-actor); (figuratively) a two-faced person; a "hypocrite," whose profession does not match their practice – i.e. someone who "says one thing but does another." [5273 (hypokritḗs) was commonly used of actors on the Greek stage. When applied in the NT, it refers to a hypocrite. "Christianity requires that believers should be open and above-board. They should be themselves. Their lives should be like an open book, easily read" (K. Wuest, Word Studies, Vol 2, Pastoral Epistles, 1 Peter, 50,51).] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5273: ὑποκριτήςὑποκριτής, ὑποκριτου, ὁ (ὑποκρίνομαι, which see); 1. one who answers, an interpreter (Plato, Lucian). 2. an actor, stage-player (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Aelian, Herodian). 3. in Biblical Greek, a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite: Matthew 6:2, 5, 16; Matthew 7:5; Matthew 15:7; Matthew 16:3 Rec.; From hupokrinomai; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite" -- hypocrite. see GREEK hupokrinomai Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 527318 Occurrences ὑποκριτά — 2 Occ. ὑποκριταὶ — 14 Occ. ὑποκριτῶν — 2 Occ. Matthew 6:2 N-NMP GRK: ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν NAS: before you, as the hypocrites do KJV: thee, as the hypocrites do in INT: as the hypocrites do in Matthew 6:5 N-NMP Matthew 6:16 N-NMP Matthew 7:5 N-VMS Matthew 15:7 N-VMP Matthew 22:18 N-VMP Matthew 23:13 N-VMP Matthew 23:14 Noun-VMP Matthew 23:15 N-VMP Matthew 23:23 N-VMP Matthew 23:25 N-VMP Matthew 23:27 N-VMP Matthew 23:29 N-VMP Matthew 24:51 N-GMP Mark 7:6 N-GMP Luke 6:42 N-VMS Luke 12:56 N-VMP Luke 13:15 N-VMP |
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