King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5272
Transliteration: hypokrisis
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok'-ree-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
Meaning: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
ὑπόκρισις, ὑποκρίσεως, ἡ (ὑποκρίνομαι, which see);
Word Summary
hypokrisis: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
Original Word: ὑπόκρισιςTransliteration: hypokrisis
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok'-ree-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
Meaning: a reply, answer, playacting, hypocrisy
Strong's Concordance
hypocrisyFrom hupokrinomai; acting under a feigned part, i.e. (figuratively) deceit ("hypocrisy") -- condemnation, dissimulation, hypocrisy.
see GREEK hupokrinomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5272: ὑπόκρισιςὑπόκρισις, 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)).