ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΑΙ, υποκρινομαι
YPOKRINOMAI, ypokrinomai
Sounds Like: hoo-po-KREE-noh-my
Translations: to pretend, to act, to play a part, to dissemble, to feign
From the root: ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a deponent verb meaning 'to act a part' or 'to pretend'. It originally referred to an actor on a stage, playing a role. In a broader sense, it came to mean to feign, dissemble, or be a hypocrite, implying a discrepancy between one's outward appearance or words and one's true intentions or character. It is a compound word formed from 'ὑπό' (hypo, 'under' or 'secretly') and 'κρίνομαι' (krinomai, 'to judge' or 'to decide for oneself'), suggesting an underlying or hidden judgment or decision that is not openly revealed.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Indicative, First Person Singular
Strong’s number: G5271 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΑΝΥΠΟΚΡΙΤΟΝ — unhypocritical, sincere, unfeigned, genuine, without hypocrisy
- ΥΠΕΚΡΙΝΑΤΟ — answered, replied, pretended, acted, feigned
- ΥΠΕΚΡΙΝΕΤΟ — was pretending, was acting, was feigning, was playing a part
- ΥΠΕΚΡΙΝΟΝΤΟ — they were pretending, they were acting, they were feigning, they were playing a part
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΙΣ — having pretended, having acted, having feigned, having played a part
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΘΗΝΑΙ — to pretend, to act hypocritically, to play a part, to feign
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΘΗΣ — do not pretend, do not act a part, do not be a hypocrite
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be judged, will be condemned, will be hypocritical, will pretend, will play a part
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΑΙ — to answer, to reply, to decide, to interpret, to feign, to pretend, to play a part, to act hypocritically
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΑΜΕΝΟΣ — having pretended, having acted a part, having played a role, having dissembled, having feigned
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΕΣΘΕ — act, pretend, play a part, dissemble, feign
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΕΤΑΙ — he pretends, he acts, he plays a part, he feigns, he dissembles
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ — hypocritical, pretending, acting, a pretender, one who pretends
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — hypocrites, those pretending, those feigning, those acting
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΕΝΩΝ — of those who pretend, of those who act, of those who play a part, of hypocrites
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