κατακαλύπτω
to cover up
‘to cover up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- 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.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2619 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 11:6 κατακαλύπτεται κατακαλυπτέσθω pres pass ind 3sg pres pass impv 3sg For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
- 1 Corinthians 11:7 κατακαλύπτεσθαι pres pass inf For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
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 κατακαλυπτω centers on the idea of “to cover up.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Debuting at 1 Corinthians 11:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2619 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
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: Be 1×, Cover 1×, Covered 1×
- American Standard Version: Veiled 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cover 1×, Cover her head 1×, She should cover her head 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cover 1×, Cover her head 1×, Does 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2619 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2619 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G2619 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2619 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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 cover up
- to veil or cover one's self
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2619 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατακαλυπτέσθω katakalyptésthō | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 11:6 | 1 |
| κατακαλύπτεσθαι katakalýptesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | 1 Corinthians 11:7 | 1 |
| κατακαλύπτεται katakalýptetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 11:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2619, 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
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κατακαλυπτω appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 10 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 38:15 κατακαλύπτω
- Exodus 26:34 κατακαλύπτω
- Leviticus 3:3 κατακαλύπτω
- Numbers 4:5 κατακαλύπτω
- 2 Chronicles 18:29 κατακαλύπτω
- Isaiah 6:2 κατακαλύπτω
- Jeremiah 26:8 κατακαλύπτω
- Ezekiel 26:10 κατακαλύπτω
- Daniel 12:9 κατακαλύπτω
- Habakkuk 2:14 κατακαλύπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2619) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 38:15 κατακαλύπτω When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
- Exodus 26:34 κατακαλύπτω You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- Exodus 29:22 κατακαλύπτω Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
- Leviticus 3:3 κατακαλύπτω He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
- Leviticus 3:14 κατακαλύπτω He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
- Leviticus 4:8 κατακαλύπτω He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
- Leviticus 7:3 κατακαλύπτω He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
- Leviticus 9:19 κατακαλύπτω and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:
- Numbers 4:5 κατακαλύπτω When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
- Numbers 22:5 κατακαλύπτω He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- 2 Chronicles 18:29 κατακαλύπτω The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
- Isaiah 6:2 κατακαλύπτω Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
- Isaiah 11:9 κατακαλύπτω They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 26:21 κατακαλύπτω For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Jeremiah 26:8 κατακαλύπτω It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.
- Jeremiah 28:42 κατακαλύπτω
- Jeremiah 28:51 κατακαλύπτω
- Ezekiel 26:10 κατακαλύπτω By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
- Ezekiel 26:19 κατακαλύπτω For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
- Ezekiel 32:7 κατακαλύπτω When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
- Ezekiel 38:9 κατακαλύπτω You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
- Daniel 12:9 κατακαλύπτω He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Habakkuk 2:14 κατακαλύπτω For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2619) 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.
