καταπέτασμα
veil
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2665 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 3 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 6:19 καταπετάσματος n gen sg neut This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
- Hebrews 9:3 καταπέτασμα n acc sg neut After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
- Hebrews 10:20 καταπετάσματος n gen sg neut by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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.
“veil” is the headline sense of the Greek noun καταπετασμα (katapétasma). More than half of its appearances fall in Hebrews. It appears 6 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 27:51. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “veil” in the King James Version, “curtain” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2665 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
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: Veil 6×
- American Standard Version: Veil 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Curtain 3×, Veil 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Curtain 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2665 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2665 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2665 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2665 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a veil spread out, a curtain
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2665 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καταπέτασμα katapétasma | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 27:51 | 4 |
| καταπετάσματος katapetásmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 6:19 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2665, 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 καταπετασμα appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 33 verses in 5 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 33
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 26:31 καταπέτασμα
- Leviticus 4:6 καταπέτασμα
- Numbers 3:10 καταπέτασμα
- 1 Kings 6:36 καταπέτασμα
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 καταπέτασμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2665) 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.
- Exodus 26:31 καταπέτασμα "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
- Exodus 26:33 καταπέτασμα You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 26:34 καταπέτασμα You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- Exodus 26:35 καταπέτασμα You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 26:37 καταπέτασμα You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:21 καταπέτασμα In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 30:6 καταπέτασμα You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 35:12 καταπέτασμα the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
- Exodus 37:3 καταπέτασμα He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
- Exodus 37:5 καταπέτασμα He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 37:16 καταπέτασμα He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Exodus 38:18 καταπέτασμα The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 39:4 καταπέτασμα They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
- Exodus 39:19 καταπέτασμα They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
- Exodus 40:3 καταπέτασμα You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
- Exodus 40:5 καταπέτασμα You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
- Exodus 40:21 καταπέτασμα He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:22 καταπέτασμα He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil.
- Exodus 40:26 καταπέτασμα He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
- Leviticus 4:6 καταπέτασμα The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 4:17 καταπέτασμα and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
- Leviticus 16:2 καταπέτασμα and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- Leviticus 16:12 καταπέτασμα He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- Leviticus 16:15 καταπέτασμα "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
- Leviticus 21:23 καταπέτασμα He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
- Leviticus 24:3 καταπέτασμα Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Numbers 3:10 καταπέτασμα You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
- Numbers 3:26 καταπέτασμα and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
- Numbers 4:5 καταπέτασμα 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 4:32 καταπέτασμα and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.
- Numbers 18:7 καταπέτασμα You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- 1 Kings 6:36 καταπέτασμα He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 καταπέτασμα He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2665) 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.
