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ὑποκριτής

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ὑποκριτής, -οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
hypokritēs
Simplified transliteration: 
hypokrites
Numbers
Strong's number: 
5273
GK Number: 
5695
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
17
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-1f
Gloss: 
hypocrite (an extension of an actor in a play, not found in the NT), implying arrogance and hardness of heart, utterly devoid of sincerity and genuineness
Definition: 
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

Greek-English Concordance for ὑποκριτής

Matthew 6:2 So whenever you give alms do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | nom pl masc) do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | nom pl masc), for they love to pray standing in synagogues and on street corners that they may be seen by others. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:16 “And when you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | nom pl masc) do, for they disfigure their faces so that they will appear to others as fasting; I tell you the truth, they have their reward.
Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! (hypokrita | ὑποκριτά | voc sg masc) First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Matthew 15:7 You hypocrites! (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc) Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, when he said:
Matthew 22:18 But Jesus, perceiving their evil intent, said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc)?
Matthew 23:13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you travel over land and sea to gain a single convert; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the former.
Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you clean off the outside of the cup and the plate while inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and all kinds of filth.
Matthew 23:29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc), because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
Matthew 24:51 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites (hypokritōn | ὑποκριτῶν | gen pl masc), where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark 7:6 And he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied accurately about you hypocrites (hypokritōn | ὑποκριτῶν | gen pl masc), as it is written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Luke 6:42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! (hypokrita | ὑποκριτά | voc sg masc) First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
Luke 12:56 Hypocrites! (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc) You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you do not know how to interpret this present time?
Luke 13:15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! (hypokritai | ὑποκριταί | voc pl masc) Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger to lead it away and to water it?