Lexical Summary hypokritēs: one who answers, an actor, a hypocrite Original Word: ὑποκριτήςTransliteration: hypokritēs Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok-ree-tace') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: one who answers, an actor, a hypocrite Meaning: one who answers, an actor, a hypocrite Strong's Concordance hypocrite. From hupokrinomai; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite" -- hypocrite. see GREEK hupokrinomai 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.; |
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