Quick Definition
ὑποκριτής, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a hypocrite, dissembler
Strong's Definition
from 5271; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"
KJV Usage: hypocrite
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | κρίνω
88.228 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Hypocrisy, Pretense
hypocrite, pretender, one who acts hypocritically (derivative of ὑποκρίνομαι ‘to pretend,’ 88.227) one who pretends to be other than he really is
MAT 6:2 · MAT 6:5 · MAT 6:16 · MAT 7:5 · MAT 15:7 · MAT 22:18 · MAT 23:13 · MAT 23:15 · MAT 23:23 · MAT 23:25 · MAT 23:27 · MAT 23:29 · MAT 24:51 · MRK 7:6 · LUK 6:42 · LUK 12:56 · LUK 13:15
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὑπο-κριτής, -0v, 6, (ὑποκρίνομαι, q. V.) ; 1. one who answers, an interpreter, (Plat., Leian.). 2. an actor, stage-player, (Arstph., Xen., Plat., Ael., Hdian.). 3. in bibl. Grk. a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite: Mt. vi. 2, 5,16; vii.5; xv.7; xvi. 3 Rec.; xxii. 18; xxiii. 13 Rec., 14 (13 Tdf.), 15, 23, 25, 27, 29; xxiv. 51; Mk. vii. 6; Lk. vi. 42; xi. 44 R Linbr.; xii.56; xiii.15. (Job xxxiv. 30; xxxvi. 13, for 41M profane, impious.) [Mention is made of Heimsoeth, De voce ὑποκριτής comment. (Bonnae, 1874, 4to.).]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὑποκριτής hypokritēs 17x
the giver of an answer or response; a stageplayer, actor; in NT a moral or religious counterfeit, a hypocrite, Mt. 6:2, 5, 16; 7:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὑπο-κριτής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ὑποκρίνομαι, q.v.) [in LXX Jb 34:30 36:13 (חָנֵף) * ;]
one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.).
a stage player, actor (Plut., Xen., al.). Metaph. (in LXX and NT), a pretender, dissembler, hypocrite: Mt 6:2, 5, 16 7:5 15:7 22:18 23:13-15 24:51, Mk 7:6 Lk 6:42 12:56 13:15.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὑποκριτὴς [ΑἹρᾳβικὰ λευκὰ δύο... men, bringing two horses, two white Arabian asses .. «ἢ (Deissmann), and P Hib I. 34%5 (B.c. 243-2), and 739 (same date), where ὑποζύγιον and évosare interchanged. See also P Petr IIT. 26° (iii/B.c,) Bots ἢ ὑποζύγιον ἢ πρόβατον, and other exx. in Mayser Gy. IT. i. p. 31. The reference may be more general in such passages as PSI IV. 359° (B.c. 252-1) ὑποζύγια καὶ σάκκους, P Lille 1. 135 (BC. 244-3) ὑποζυγίων πεντήκοντα ἐφεστηκότων, and P Tebt II. 9215 (late 1i/B.c.) ἐντ[εῦθ]εν κατάγεται δι᾽ ὑποζυγίων, “(the corn) is thence transported by beasts of burden” (Eda.). -» “1 have sent ΝΌΟΝ, one of our
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὑποκριτής (hupokritēs) — hypocrite. ὑπο-κρῐτής, οῦ, ὁ, one who answers:
I. interpreter or expounder, τῆς δι᾽ αἰνιγμῶν φήμης [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. in Attic dialect, one who plays a part on the stage, actor, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of an orator, ποικίλος ὑ. καὶ περιττός (of Dem.) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; one who delivers, recites, declaimer, ἐπῶν [Refs] see at {ῥαψῳδοί}; rhapsodist, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; this sense or sense [Refs] is possible in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II.3. metaphorically, pretender, dissembler, hypocrite, [LXX+NT]