ὑπόκρισις
hypokrisis · hypocrisy
Greek word · Strong’s number G5272 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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hypokrisis (ὑπόκρισις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hypocrisy”.
Pretending to be what one is not.
How to say it
hy·po·kri·sis
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Pretending to be what one is not.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Matthew 23:28
So you also on the outside appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
- Mark 12:15
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I may see it.”
- Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Galatians 2:13
And the rest of the Jews also acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
- 1 Timothy 4:2
through the hypocrisy of liars whose own conscience has been seared,
- 1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wickedness and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,