κρύπτω
to hide
also: conceal, to be hid fuller range ↓
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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 13 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (21%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (16%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (5%)
+5 more forms (5 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 19 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2928 appears — 18 distinct verses across 7 books. 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 6 verses
- Matthew 5:14 κρυβῆναι aor pass inf You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.
- Matthew 11:25 ἔκρυψας aor act ind 2sg At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
- Matthew 13:35 κεκρυμμένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
- Matthew 13:44 κεκρυμμένῳ ἔκρυψεν perf pass ptcp dat sg masc aor act ind 3sg "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
- Matthew 25:18 ἔκρυψεν aor act ind 3sg But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
- Matthew 25:25 ἔκρυψα aor act ind 1sg I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 13:21 ἔκρυψεν aor act ind 3sg It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
- Luke 18:34 κεκρυμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
- Luke 19:42 ἐκρύβη aor pass ind 3sg saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
John 3 verses
- John 8:59 ἐκρύβη aor pass ind 3sg Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
- John 12:36 ἐκρύβη aor pass ind 3sg While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
- John 19:38 κεκρυμμένος perf pass ptcp nom sg masc After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
Colossians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 2:17 κεκρυμμένου perf pass ptcp gen sg neut He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
- Revelation 6:15 ἔκρυψαν aor act ind 3pl The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Revelation 6:16 κρύψατε aor act impv 2pl They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
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.
“to hide” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κρυπτω (krýptō). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:14. With 18 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Not a single-sense word, it carries 3 senses, among them “conceal” and “to be hid”. See the sense tree, 18-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2928 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 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 18 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 18 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 67%
- Johannine 6 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 17%
- Revelation 3 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 11%
- Hebrews 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: Hid 4×, Be hid 2×
- American Standard Version: Hid 3×, Be hid 2×, Hid himself 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hid 3×, Hidden 3×, Was hidden 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hid 3×, Hidden 3×, Be hidden 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2928 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G2928 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G2928 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G2928 across 18 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 3 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 hide, conceal, to be hid
- escape notice
- metaph. to conceal (that it may not become known)
Word origin
Origin: a primary verb
A primary verb; to conceal (properly by covering ): - hide (self) keep secret secret [-ly].
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G2928 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2928, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κρυπτω appears 121 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 114 verses in 20 books.
- 121
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 114
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:8 κρύπτω
- Exodus 2:3 κρύπτω
- Numbers 5:13 κρύπτω
- Deuteronomy 7:20 κρύπτω
- Joshua 2:4 κρύπτω
- Judges 9:5 κρύπτω
- 1 Samuel 3:17 κρύπτω
- 2 Samuel 14:18 κρύπτω
- 1 Kings 17:3 κρύπτω
- 2 Kings 6:9 κρύπτω
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 κρύπτω
- Job 5:21 κρύπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2928) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 114. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:8 κρύπτω They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:10 κρύπτω The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 4:14 κρύπτω Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
- Genesis 18:17 κρύπτω Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
- Genesis 31:20 κρύπτω Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.
- Genesis 37:26 κρύπτω Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- Exodus 2:3 κρύπτω When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
- Exodus 2:12 κρύπτω He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- Numbers 5:13 κρύπτω and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
- Deuteronomy 7:20 κρύπτω Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
- Joshua 2:4 κρύπτω The woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence they were:
- Joshua 2:6 κρύπτω But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
- Joshua 2:16 κρύπτω She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
- Joshua 6:25 κρύπτω But Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Joshua 7:19 κρύπτω Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.
- Joshua 7:21 κρύπτω when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Joshua 10:17 κρύπτω It was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
- Judges 9:5 κρύπτω He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
- 1 Samuel 3:17 κρύπτω He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
- 1 Samuel 3:18 κρύπτω Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
- 1 Samuel 10:22 κρύπτω Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
- 1 Samuel 13:6 κρύπτω When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
- 1 Samuel 14:11 κρύπτω Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
- 1 Samuel 14:22 κρύπτω Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 19:2 κρύπτω Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:
- 1 Samuel 20:2 κρύπτω He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
- 1 Samuel 20:5 κρύπτω David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
- 1 Samuel 20:19 κρύπτω When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
- 1 Samuel 20:24 κρύπτω So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
- 1 Samuel 23:19 κρύπτω Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
- 2 Samuel 14:18 κρύπτω Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
- 2 Samuel 17:9 κρύπτω Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 19:5 κρύπτω Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
- 1 Kings 17:3 κρύπτω Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
- 1 Kings 18:4 κρύπτω for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:13 κρύπτω Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- 1 Kings 22:25 κρύπτω Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
- 2 Kings 6:9 κρύπτω The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.
- 2 Kings 6:29 κρύπτω So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.
- 2 Kings 7:12 κρύπτω The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
- 2 Kings 11:2 κρύπτω But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
- 2 Kings 11:3 κρύπτω He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 κρύπτω But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.
- Job 5:21 κρύπτω You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
- Job 13:20 κρύπτω "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
- Job 13:24 κρύπτω Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
- Job 14:13 κρύπτω "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 15:18 κρύπτω (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;
- Job 17:4 κρύπτω For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
- Job 18:10 κρύπτω A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2928) 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.
