Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
the giver of an answer or response; a stageplayer, actor; in NT a moral or religious counterfeit, a hypocrite, Mt. 6:2, 5, 16; 7:5
Translated in KJV as
hypocrite
Etymology
from G5271 (ὑποκρίνομαι);
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