# G5271 ὑποκρίνομαι

ὑποκρίνομαι (hypokrínomai), Strong’s G5271: to decide (speak or act) under a false part, i.e. (figuratively) dissemble (pretend) KJV: feign. Occurs 8 times.

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*hypokrínomai* — to decide (speak or act) under a false part, i.e. (figuratively) dissemble (pretend)

KJV: feign

Built from [ὑπό hypó](https://besorah.bible/word/G5259) (under) + [κρίνω krínō](https://besorah.bible/word/G2919) (by implication, to try, condemn, punish)

Occurs 8 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 20:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/20?v=20) — They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so…
- [Sirach 35:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/35?v=15) — 
- [Sirach 36:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/36?v=2) — 
- [2 Maccabees 5:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/5?v=25) — He came to Jerusalem, and pretending to be a man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the…
- [2 Maccabees 6:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/6?v=21) — But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old…
- [2 Maccabees 6:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/6?v=24) — “For it doesn’t become our years to dissemble,” he said, “that many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man…
- [4 Maccabees 6:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/6?v=15) — We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and you can save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s…
- [4 Maccabees 6:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/6?v=17) — “Let us who are children of Abraham not be so evil advised as to give way and make use of an unbecoming pretense.