κρυπτός
hidden
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
6 distinct verses where G2927 appears in the Nominative case, across 5 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
1 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
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.
κρυπτος — transliterated kryptós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “hidden.” Debuting at Matthew 6:4, it then recurs through the corpus. With 16 verses in 8 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (25% of all occurrences). Sharing its root, it stands alongside κρυπτω, κρυφη and κρυπτη. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2927 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 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 16 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 63%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 31%
- Johannine 3 verses · 19%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%
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: Secret 10×, Hid 3×, Hidden things 2×
- American Standard Version: Secret 9×, Hid 4×, Hidden things 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Secret 8×, Hidden 5×, Secrets 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Secret 8×, Hidden 5×, Hidden things 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2927 across 18 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2927 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G2927 across 19 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2927 across 18 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.
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.
- hidden, concealed, secret
Word origin
Derived from κρυπτω (krýptō) (G2928) — to hide.
From G2928 ; concealed that is private : - hid (-den) inward [-ly] secret.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2927 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κρυπτῷ kryptō̂ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 6:4 | 8 |
| κρυπτὰ kryptà | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Romans 2:16 | 4 |
| κρυπτὸν kryptòn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 10:26 | 4 |
| κρυφαίῳ kryphaíō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 6:18 | 2 |
| κρυπτὸς kryptòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 3:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2927, 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 → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κρυπτος appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 15:9 κρυπτός
- 1 Kings 6:4 κρυπτός
- Isaiah 22:9 κρυπτός
- Jeremiah 30:4 κρυπτός
- Ezekiel 8:12 κρυπτός
- Daniel 2:47 κρυπτός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2927) 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.
- Deuteronomy 15:9 κρυπτός Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 κρυπτός and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
- 1 Kings 6:4 κρυπτός For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
- Isaiah 22:9 κρυπτός You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
- Isaiah 29:10 κρυπτός For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
- Jeremiah 30:4 κρυπτός These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
- Ezekiel 8:12 κρυπτός Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
- Ezekiel 40:16 κρυπτός There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:26 κρυπτός There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
- Daniel 2:47 κρυπτός The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2927) 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.