ὑποκριτής
hupokritēs
“hypocrite”
Definition
an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"
from G5271 (ὑποκρίνομαι);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
ὑποκριτής appears 20 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
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