καλυπτήρ
covering tile, lid
Where this word appears
Every passage where καλυπτήρ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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 27:3 καλυπτήρ And you shall make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shall you make of brass.
- Numbers 4:13 καλυπτήρ And he shall put the covering on the altar, and they shall cover it with a cloth all of purple.
- Numbers 4:14 καλυπτήρ And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the fire-pans, and the flesh hooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its staves; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars.
About this word
About this word
καλυπτήρ (kalyptḗr), “covering tile, lid,” 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 3 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 →
