STRONGS G5273:
ὑποκριτής,
ὑποκριτου,
ὁ (
ὑποκρίνομαι, which see);
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:
Matthew 6:2,
5,
16;
Matthew 7:5;
Matthew 15:7;
Matthew 16:3 Rec.;
Matthew 22:18;
23:13 Rec.,
Matthew 23:14 (13
Tdf.),
Matthew 23:15,
23,
25,
27,
29;
Matthew 24:51;
Mark 7:6;
Luke 6:42;
Luke 11:44 R L in brackets;
Luke 12:56;
Luke 13:15. (
Job 34:30;
Job 36:13, for
חָנֵף, profane, impious.) (Mention is made of Heimsoeth, De voce
ὑποκριτής comment. (Bonnae, 1874, 4to.).)
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