κατακάλυμμα
covering, veil
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατακάλυμμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 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 κατακάλυμμα And you shall make for a covering of the tabernacle rams' skins dyed red, and blue skins as coverings above.
- Exodus 38:19 κατακάλυμμα He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of the court, and the rings for drawing out the veil above of brass.
- Exodus 40:19 κατακάλυμμα And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:21 κατακάλυμμα And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on it the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Numbers 3:25 κατακάλυμμα And the charge of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness was the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
- Numbers 3:31 κατακάλυμμα And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works.
- Numbers 4:6 κατακάλυμμα And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through the rings.
- Numbers 4:31 κατακάλυμμα And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the capitals of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.
- Numbers 4:31 κατακάλυμμα And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the capitals of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.
- Isaiah 14:11 κατακάλυμμα Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.
- Isaiah 47:2 κατακάλυμμα Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.
About this word
About this word
κατακάλυμμα (katakálymma), “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 11 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 →