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Lexicon :: Strong's G5273 - hypokritēs

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ὑποκριτής
Transliteration
hypokritēs (Key)
Pronunciation
hoop-ok-ree-tace'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:559,1235

Strong’s Definitions

ὑποκριτής hupŏkritēs, hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from G5271; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite":—hypocrite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's G5273 in the following manner: hypocrite (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's G5273 in the following manner: hypocrite (20x).

  1. one who answers, an interpreter

  2. an actor, stage player

  3. a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὑποκριτής hupŏkritēs, hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from G5271; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite":—hypocrite.
STRONGS G5273:
ὑποκριτής, 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.; Matthew 22:18; 23:13 Rec.,Matthew 23:14 (13 Tdf.),Matthew 23:15,23,25,27,29; Matthew 24:51; Mark 7:6; Luke 6:42; Luke 11:44 R L in brackets; Luke 12:56; Luke 13:15. (Job 34:30; Job 36:13, for חָנֵף, profane, impious.) (Mention is made of Heimsoeth, De voce ὑποκριτής comment. (Bonnae, 1874, 4to.).)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Job
34:30; 36:13
Matthew
6:2; 6:5; 6:16; 7:5; 15:7; 16:3; 22:18; 23:13; 23:14; 23:15; 23:23; 23:25; 23:27; 23:29; 24:51
Mark
7:6
Luke
6:42; 11:44; 12:56; 13:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5273 matches the Greek ὑποκριτής (hypokritēs),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2 - Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 - "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 - "When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:5 - You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:7 - Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:18 - But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, "Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:13 - "But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:15 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:23 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law - justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:25 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:51

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:51 - and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:6 - He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:42 - How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:56 - You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:15 - Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?
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