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.; Strong's Exhaustive Concordance hypocrite. From hupokrinomai; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite" -- hypocrite. see GREEK hupokrinomai Forms and Transliterations υποκριτα υποκριτά ὑποκριτά υποκριται υποκριταί ὑποκριταί ὑποκριταὶ υποκριτήν υποκριτων υποκριτών ὑποκριτῶν hypokrita hypokritá hypokritai hypokritaí hypokritaì hypokriton hypokritôn hypokritōn hypokritō̂n upokrita upokritai upokriton upokritōnLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman'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 |