Greek noun (masculine) · G5273
ὑποκριτής
hypokriteshoop-ok-ree-tace'
one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.).; a stage player, actor (Plut., Xen., al.). Metaphorical (in LXX and NT)
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hypokritḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5273is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5273
an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"
The King James renders it: hypocrite.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hypokrites is rendered "one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.).; a stage player, actor (Plut., Xen., al.). Metaphorical (in LXX and NT)". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Matthew 6:2ὑποκριταὶ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.)., and a stage player, actor (Plut., Xen., al.). Metaphorical (in LXX and NT).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| one who answers, an interpreter (Plat.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you… |
| a stage player, actor (Plut., Xen., al.). Metaphorical (in LXX and NT)a pretender, dissembler, hypocrite | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑποκάτω | hypokato | under | Uses11 |
| ὑπόκρισις | hypokrisis | hypocrisy | Uses6 |
| ὑποκρίνομαι | hypokrinomai | to pretend | Uses1 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὑποκριταί11
- ὑποκριτά2
- ὑποκριταὶ2
- ὑποκριτῶν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · vocative (address) · masculine plural10N-VPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM
- noun · vocative (address) · masculine singular2N-VSM
Matthew
thirteen uses
So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
- ὑποκριταὶhupokritainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
- ὑποκριταὶhupokritainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- ὑποκριτάhupokritanoun · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: Hypocrite
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
- Ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Hypocrites
But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- ὑποκριτῶνhupokritonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Mark
one use
Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
- ὑποκριτῶνhupokritonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: hypocrites
Luke
three uses
How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- ὑποκριτάhupokritanoun · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: Hypocrite
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Hypocrites
“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
- ὑποκριταίhupokritainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Hypocrites
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.