Hypocrite

כנף Chaneph, hypocrita, impius, peccator, proditor, impurus. Jer. iii. 1. xxiii. 15.HYPOCRITE. This word comes from the Greek, Hypocrités, he who feigns to be what he is not, who puts on a false Person, like the Actors in Tragedies and Comedies. It is generally applied to those who assume the appearances of virtue, without having any thing of the reality of it. Our Saviour frequently accused the Pharisees of Hypocrisy. In the books of the Old Testament, the Hebrew, Chaneph, which is rendred Hypocrite, Counterfeit, signifies likewise a profane, wicked man, one polluted and corrupted, a man of impiety, a deceiver. Jeremiah makes use of the word Chaneph to express the infection, the pollutions of the land of Judah, caused by the sins of its inhabitants.

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