ἀνυπόκριτος
anypókritos · G505 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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genuine, sincere
Pertaining to being genuine and sincere, and hence lacking in pretense or show
ExamplesRomans 12:9 Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
2 Corinthians 6:6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀγάπηlove 1
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Near synonyms 3 words
- ἁπλοῦς haploûs · G573 · to be healthy, to be sound, generous
- ἀνυπόκριτος emphasizes sincerity as the absence of hypocrisy/pretense, while ἁπλοῦς emphasizes sincerity as singleness or simplicity of motive without duplicity. Both convey genuine, unmixed character.
- ἀληθινός alēthinós · G228 · real, really, true
- ἀνυπόκριτος denotes sincerity specifically as freedom from hypocrisy, while ἀληθινός denotes genuineness as conformity to reality/truth. Both express authenticity but from different angles.
- γνήσιος gnḗsios · G1103 · genuine, real
- ἀνυπόκριτος emphasizes sincerity as the absence of pretense, while γνήσιος emphasizes genuineness as authenticity of character or legitimacy. Both convey freedom from falseness.
Contrasting words 1 word
- πλαστός plastós · G4112 · false, made-up, invented
- ἀνυπόκριτος means sincere/genuine (without hypocrisy), while πλαστός means feigned/fabricated (artificially contrived). Direct lexical opposites on the axis of genuineness versus falseness.
In the other Testament 1 word
- תָּמִים tâmîym · H8549 · whole, complete, full
- ἀνυπόκριτος emphasizes sincerity/genuineness in the sense of 'without hypocrisy,' while תָּמִים emphasizes wholeness and moral integrity. Both convey authenticity and absence of duplicity in character.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Genuine, sincere73.8
- In 1 Timothy 1:5, Paul writes that “the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere (anypokrítou) faith,” describing a faith free of any pretense.
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνυπόκριτον (alpha privative and ὑποκρίνομαι), unfeigned, undisguised: Rom 12:9; 2 Cor…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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