Hypokritḗs — G5273

Definition

masculine noun

an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"

1. one who answers, an interpreter (Plato, Lucian)
2. an actor, stage-player (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Aelian, Herodian)
3. in Biblical Greek, a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite

Usually translated as

hypocrite

Origin

from G5271

• hypokrínomai (G5271)

Occurrences

Hypokritḗs occurs 20 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (15), Mark (1), Luke (4)

• Matthew 6:2 — Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites (ὑποκριταί) do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matthew 6:5 — And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites (ὑποκριταί) are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matthew 6:16 — Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites (ὑποκριταί), of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matthew 7:5 — Thou hypocrite (ὑποκριτά), first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
• Matthew 15:7 — Ye hypocrites (ὑποκριταί), well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
• Matthew 16:3 — And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites (ὑποκριταί), ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
• Matthew 22:18 — But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)?
• Matthew 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Matthew 23:14 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
• Matthew 23:15 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
• Matthew 23:23 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
• Matthew 23:25 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Matthew 23:27 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
• Matthew 23:29 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
• Matthew 24:51 — And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (ὑποκριτῶν): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Mark 7:6 — He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites (ὑποκριτῶν), as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
• Luke 6:42 — Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite (ὑποκριτά), cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
• Luke 11:44 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (ὑποκριταί)! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
• Luke 12:56 — Ye hypocrites (ὑποκριταί), ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
• Luke 13:15 — The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite (ὑποκριταί), doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?