ἐπικάλυμμα
covering, veil
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπικάλυμμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 26:14 ἐπικάλυμμα And you shall make for a covering of the tabernacle rams' skins dyed red, and blue skins as coverings above.
- Exodus 39:20 ἐπικάλυμμα and the curtains of the court, and the posts, and the veil of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court,
- 2 Samuel 17:19 ἐπικάλυμμα And a woman took a covering, and spread it over the mouth of the well, and spread out ground corn upon it to dry, and the thing was not known.
- Job 19:29 ἐπικάλυμμα Do you⌃ also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.
About this word
About this word
ἐπικάλυμμα (epikálymma), “covering, veil,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
