Lexicon hupokrinomai: to answer, reply, to answer on a stage, to pretend Original Word: ὑποκρίνομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hupokrinomai Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ok-rin'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I act the part, pretend Definition: I act the part, pretend; I answer, respond. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom hupo and krinóDefinitionto answer, reply, to answer on a stage, to pretend NASB Translationpretended (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5271: ὑποκρίνομαιὑποκρίνομαι; 1. to take up another's statements in reference to what one has decided for oneself (middle κρίνομαι), i. e. to reply, answer (Homer, Herodotus, others). 2. to make answer (speak) on the stage, i. e. to personate anyone, play a part (often so from Demosthenes down). Hence, 3. to simulate, feign, pretend (from Demosthenes and Polybius down): followed by an accusative with the infinitive Luke 20:20. (2 Macc. 6:21, 24; 4 Macc. 6:15; Sir. 35:15 (Sir. 32:15); Sir. 36:2 (Sir. 33:2)). (Compare: συνυποκρίνομαι.)
Strong's feign. Middle voice from hupo and krino; to decide (speak or act) under a false part, i.e. (figuratively) dissemble (pretend) -- feign. see GREEK hupo see GREEK krino |
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