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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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ὑποκρίνομαι

Strong’s: G5271

Associated OET lemmas: ὑποκρίνομαι

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: κρίνω

Sense 1: to pretend, to act hypocritically, pretense, hypocrisy

Semantic entry: 88.227

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Hypocrisy, Pretense

Definition: to give an impression of having certain purposes or motivations, while in reality having quite different ones

Notes: In a number of languages ὑποκρίνομαι and ὑπόκρισις are expressed in idiomatic ways, for example, ‘to have two faces,’ ‘to have two tongues,’ ‘to be two people,’ or ‘to have two hearts.’

LUK 20:20: RV LUK 20:20 · LV LUK 20:20 · Read together LUK 20:20

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OET-RV LUK 20:20

20 So after watching Yeshua closely, they sent agents who pretended to be genuine inquirers so that they could catch him out on some careless statement, and then they could hand him over to the rule and authority of the Romaios governor.

OET-LV LUK 20:20

20 And having_watched_closely, they_sent_out spies pretending themselves to_be righteous, in_order_that they_may_catch of_him a_statement, so_that to_give_ him _over to_the rule and the authority of_the governor.