Original Word: ὑπόκρισις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: hupokrisis
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok'-ree-sis)
Definition: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
Usage: (lit: stage-playing), a response, answer, hypocrisy, dissembling.

Cognate: 5272 hypókrisis (a feminine noun, cognate with 5273 /hypokritḗs, see there) – hypocrisy (literally, "under-judging"). 5272 /hypókrisis ("hypocrisy, insincerity") literally refers to "someone acting under a mask," and implies a specific application (type) of hypocrisy. See 5273 (hypokritēs).

Word Origin
from hupokrinomai
Definition
a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
NASB Translation
hypocrisy (6).

STRONGS NT 5272: ὑπόκρισις

ὑπόκρισις, ὑποκρίσεως, ἡ (ὑποκρίνομαι, which see);

1. an answering; an answer (Herodotus).

2. the acting of a stage-player (Aristotle, Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian, Artemidorus Daldianus, others).

3. dissimulation, hypocrisy: Matthew 23:28; Mark 12:15; Luke 12:1; Galatians 2:13; 1 Timothy 4:2; (James 5:12 Rec.st); 1 Peter 2:1 (cf. Buttmann, § 123, 2) (2 Macc. 6:25; Polybius 35, 2, 13; Lucian, am. 8; Aesop fab. 106 (284); (Philo, quis rer. div. haeres § 8; de Josepho § 14)).

hypocrisy

From hupokrinomai; acting under a feigned part, i.e. (figuratively) deceit ("hypocrisy") -- condemnation, dissimulation, hypocrisy.

see GREEK hupokrinomai

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