The Greek and Hebrew terms that are translated as “hypocrite” in English typically have a counterpart in most languages. According to Bratcher / Nida (1961, p. 225), they can be categorized into the following categories:

• those which employ some concept of “two” or “double”
• those which make use of some expression of “mouth” or “speaking”
• those which are based upon some special cultural feature
• those which employ a non-metaphorical phrase

Following is a list of (back-) translations from some languages:

• Highland Totonac, Huautla Mazatec, Lacandon, Cuicatec, Highland Puebla Nahuatl: “two-faced”
• Obolo: ebi isi iba: “double-faced person” (source: Enene Enene)
• Tzeltal, Chol: “two hearts”
• Pame: “two mouths”
• San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: “two heads”
• Kekchí: “two sides”
• Shipibo-Conibo: “double (or “forked”) tongue”
• Eastern Highland Otomi: “double talk”
• Huehuetla Tepehua: “talk false”
• Copainalá Zoque: “lie-act”
• Kituba, Amganad Ifugao, Chuukese: “lie”
• Toraja-Sa’dan: “someone whose lips are fair” (i.e. “gracious”)
• Mossi: “have a sweet mouth”
• Mazahua: “have a swollen mouth” (from too much speaking)
• Tai Dam: “have a straight mouth and a crooked heart”
• Kongo: “the bitterness of white” (an idiom based on the fact that white-wash looks nice but tastes bitter)
• Malagasy: “spread a clean carpet” (an expression used in Madagascar to describe one who covers up the dirt of an unswept floor just before the arrival of guests)
• Zanaki: “those who make themselves out to be good”
• Tetelcingo Nahuatl: “those who deceive” (this and all examples above acc. to Bratcher / Nida 1961, p. 225)
• Kafa: “one who makes as if his belly is clean” (source: Loren Bliese)
• Agatu: ɔcɛ gigbefu — “disguised person acting a part” (source: Mackay, The Bible Translator 1962, 211f)
• Mairasi: “deceiver person” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
• Bauzi: “good on top person” (source: David Briley in Kroneman (2004), p. 502)
• Tibetan: kha chos pa (ཁ་​ཆོས་​པ།), lit. “mouth + religion + person” (used for instance in Matt. 7:5) or sgyu zog can (སྒྱུ་​ཟོག་​ཅན།), lit. “deception + fraud + person” (used for instance in Matt. 24:51) (source: gSungrab website )
• Low German: “actor in a comedy” (translation by Johannes Jessen, publ. 1933, republ. 2006)
• Kölsch (publ. 2017): falscher Fuffzijer, literally “counterfeit 50-pfennig coin” (source: Jost Zetzsche)
• Lélé: ne kub so or “make mouth two” (source: Andy Warren-Rothlin)

The English version of Sarah Ruden (2021) uses “play-actor.” She explains (p. li): “A hupokrites is fundamentally an actor. The word has deep negativity in the Gospels on two counts: professional actors were not respectable people in the ancient world, and traditional Judaism did not countenance any kind of playacting. I write ‘play-actor’ throughout.”

See also hypocrisy.