καλύπτω
to hide
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2572 appears in the Book of Luke — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 8:16 καλύπτει pres act ind 3sg "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
- Luke 23:30 καλύψατε aor act impv 2pl Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb καλυπτω centers on the idea of “to hide.” Debuting at Matthew 8:24, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 7 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (29%), then Luke and 2 Corinthians. It shares a root with κλεπτω, κλεμμα and κλεπτης. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2572 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 2 verses 29%
- Luke 2 verses 29%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 29%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hid 2×
- American Standard Version: Covereth 2×, Veiled 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Veiled 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Veiled 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2572 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2572 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2572 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2572 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to hinder the knowledge of a thing
Word origin
Derived from κλεπτω (kléptō) (G2813) — to steal.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2572 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κεκαλυμμένον kekalymménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 10:26 | 3 |
| καλύπτει kalýptei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 8:16 | 2 |
| καλύπτεσθαι kalýptesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Matthew 8:24 | 1 |
| καλύψατε kalýpsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 23:30 | 1 |
| καλύψει kalýpsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | James 5:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2572, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καλυπτω appears 76 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 75 verses in 19 books.
- 76
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 75
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 8:2 καλύπτω
- Leviticus 13:12 καλύπτω
- Numbers 4:8 καλύπτω
- Deuteronomy 23:14 καλύπτω
- Joshua 24:7 καλύπτω
- 1 Samuel 19:13 καλύπτω
- 1 Kings 7:27 καλύπτω
- Ezra 13:37 καλύπτω
- Job 15:27 καλύπτω
- Psalms 31:5 καλύπτω
- Proverbs 10:6 καλύπτω
- Ecclesiastes 6:4 καλύπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2572) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 75. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 8:2 καλύπτω If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
- Exodus 10:5 καλύπτω and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
- Exodus 10:15 καλύπτω For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:28 καλύπτω The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 15:5 καλύπτω The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
- Exodus 15:10 καλύπτω You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Exodus 16:13 καλύπτω It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
- Exodus 21:33 καλύπτω "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- Exodus 24:15 καλύπτω Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
- Exodus 24:16 καλύπτω The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
- Exodus 26:13 καλύπτω The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exodus 27:2 καλύπτω You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
- Exodus 28:42 καλύπτω You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
- Exodus 40:31 καλύπτω Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
- Leviticus 13:12 καλύπτω "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;
- Leviticus 13:13 καλύπτω then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
- Leviticus 16:13 καλύπτω and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.
- Leviticus 17:13 καλύπτω "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
- Numbers 4:8 καλύπτω They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
- Numbers 4:9 καλύπτω They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
- Numbers 4:11 καλύπτω On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
- Numbers 4:12 καλύπτω They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
- Numbers 4:15 καλύπτω "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 9:15 καλύπτω On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
- Numbers 9:16 καλύπτω So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- Numbers 16:33 καλύπτω So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Numbers 17:7 καλύπτω Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 22:11 καλύπτω Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 καλύπτω for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
- Joshua 24:7 καλύπτω When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.
- 1 Samuel 19:13 καλύπτω Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
- 1 Kings 7:27 καλύπτω He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- Ezra 13:37 καλύπτω
- Job 15:27 καλύπτω Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.
- Job 21:26 καλύπτω They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.
- Job 22:11 καλύπτω Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.
- Job 23:17 καλύπτω Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 36:30 καλύπτω Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
- Job 36:32 καλύπτω He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.
- Psalms 31:5 καλύπτω Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
- Psalms 43:16 καλύπτω
- Psalms 54:6 καλύπτω With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
- Psalms 68:8 καλύπτω The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Psalms 77:53 καλύπτω
- Psalms 79:11 καλύπτω Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death;
- Psalms 84:3 καλύπτω Yes, the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, Near your altars, Yahweh of Hosts, my King, and my God.
- Psalms 103:9 καλύπτω He will not always accuse; Neither will he stay angry forever.
- Psalms 105:11 καλύπτω Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;"
- Psalms 105:17 καλύπτω He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
- Psalms 139:10 καλύπτω Even there your hand will lead me, And your right hand will hold me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2572) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
