λανθάνω
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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- 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.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G2990 appears in the Present tense, across 2 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.
Acts 1 verse
2 Peter 2 verses
- 2 Peter 3:5 λανθάνει pres act ind 3sg For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
- 2 Peter 3:8 λανθανέτω pres act impv 3sg But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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.
λανθανω (lanthánō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to hide.” It first appears in Mark 7:24. Spanning 6 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. 2 Peter dominates its distribution — 2 of 6 verses. Related forms include λαθρα and ληθη. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2990 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.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 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 2 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 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: Are hidden 1×, Are ignorant of 1×, Be 1×
- American Standard Version: Be hid 1×, Forget 1×, Hid 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Escape their notice 1×, Escape your notice 1×, Has escaped 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: From 2×, Hide 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2990 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2990 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2990 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2990 across 11 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.
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 be hidden, to be hidden from one, secretly, unawares, without knowing
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of a primitive verb, which is used only as an alt. in certain tenses
A prolonged form of a primary verb which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to lie hid (literally or figuratively); often used adverbially unwittingly : - be hid be ignorant of unawares.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2990 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λαθεῖν latheîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Mark 7:24 | 1 |
| λανθάνει lanthánei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Peter 3:5 | 1 |
| λανθάνειν lanthánein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Acts 26:26 | 1 |
| λανθανέτω lanthanétō | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Peter 3:8 | 1 |
| ἔλαθεν élathen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 8:47 | 1 |
| ἔλαθόν élathón | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 13:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2990, 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 λανθανω appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 5 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- 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
- Leviticus 4:13 λανθάνω
- Numbers 5:13 λανθάνω
- 2 Samuel 17:22 λανθάνω
- Job 24:1 λανθάνω
- Isaiah 40:26 λανθάνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2990) 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.
- Leviticus 4:13 λανθάνω "'If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
- Leviticus 5:3 λανθάνω "'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
- Leviticus 5:4 λανθάνω "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.
- Leviticus 5:15 λανθάνω "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
- Numbers 5:13 λανθάνω 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;
- Numbers 5:27 λανθάνω When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- 2 Samuel 17:22 λανθάνω Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
- 2 Samuel 18:13 λανθάνω Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against [me].
- Job 24:1 λανθάνω "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
- Job 28:21 λανθάνω Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.
- Job 34:21 λανθάνω "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings.
- Isaiah 40:26 λανθάνω Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2990) 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.
