σκεπάζω
shelter, cover, protect
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκεπάζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 25 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 2:2 σκεπάζω And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.
- Exodus 12:13 σκεπάζω And the blood shall be for a sign to you on the houses in which you⌃ are, and I will see the blood, and will protect you, and there shall not be on you the plague of destruction, when I strike in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:27 σκεπάζω that you⌃ shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
- Exodus 33:22 σκεπάζω and when my glory shall pass by, then I will put you into a hole of the rock; and I will cover you over with my hand, until I shall have passed by.
- Exodus 40:3 σκεπάζω and you shall place in it the ark of the testimony, and shall cover the ark with the veil,
- Exodus 40:21 σκεπάζω 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 9:20 σκεπάζω And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.
- Deuteronomy 13:9 σκεπάζω you shall surely report concerning him, and your hands shall be upon him among the first to kill him, and the hands of all the people at the last.
- Deuteronomy 32:11 σκεπάζω As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
- 1 Samuel 23:26 σκεπάζω And Saul and his men go on one side of the mountain, and David and his men are on the other side of the mountain: and David was hiding himself to escape from Saul: and Saul and his men encamped against David and his men, in order to take them.
- 1 Samuel 26:1 σκεπάζω And the Ziphites come out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, David hides himself with us in the hill Echela, opposite Jessemon.
- 1 Samuel 26:24 σκεπάζω And, behold, as your life has been precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and deliver me out of all affliction.
- Ezra 13:14 σκεπάζω
- Psalms 16:8 σκεπάζω Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings,
- Psalms 26:5 σκεπάζω For in the day of my afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.
- Psalms 30:21 σκεπάζω Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.
- Psalms 60:5 σκεπάζω For you, o God, have heard my prayers; you have given an inheritance to them that fear your name.
- Psalms 63:3 σκεπάζω who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;
- Psalms 90:14 σκεπάζω For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name.
- Isaiah 4:5 σκεπάζω And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yes, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence.
- Isaiah 28:15 σκεπάζω Because you⌃ have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
- Isaiah 30:2 σκεπάζω even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.
- Isaiah 49:2 σκεπάζω and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;
- Isaiah 51:16 σκεπάζω I will put my words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Sion, You are my people.
- Zephaniah 2:3 σκεπάζω Seek you⌃ the Lord, all you⌃ meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that you⌃ may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.
About this word
About this word
σκεπάζω (skepázō), “shelter, cover, protect,” 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 25 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 →