ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΝ, υποκρισιν
YPOKRISIN, ypokrisin
Sounds Like: hoo-po-KREE-seen
Translations: hypocrisy, a hypocrisy, pretense, a pretense, dissimulation, a dissimulation
From the root: ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of feigning to be what one is not, or to believe what one does not. It denotes a pretense, a false appearance, or dissimulation. It is a compound word formed from 'ὑπό' (hypo, meaning 'under' or 'underneath') and 'κρίσις' (krisis, meaning 'judgment' or 'decision'), originally referring to the act of an actor playing a role on stage, hence 'acting a part' or 'putting on a show'. In a moral sense, it describes a person who acts in a way that contradicts their true beliefs or character, often to deceive others.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G5272 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:219
Barnabus
Codex Sinaiticus
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 3:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 33:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 6:25
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Mark — 12:15
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 4:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΣ.
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.
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΙ — to hypocrisy, in hypocrisy, by hypocrisy, hypocrisy, a hypocrisy
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΙΣ — hypocrisies, deceptions, pretenses
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΩΝ — of hypocrisy, of a pretense, of a play-acting, of a dissimulation
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΕΩΣ — of hypocrisy, of pretense, of dissimulation, of acting, of play-acting
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙ — hypocrisy, a hypocrisy, dissimulation, pretense, a pretense
- ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΣ — hypocrisy, a hypocrisy, dissimulation, pretense
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