Lexical 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)). |
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