Word Summary
kalyptō: to cover
Original Word: καλύπτωTransliteration: kalyptō
Phonetic Spelling: (kal-oop'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cover
Meaning: to cover
Strong's Concordance
cover, hide.
Akin to klepto and krupto; to cover up (literally or figuratively) -- cover, hide.
see GREEK klepto
see GREEK krupto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2572: καλύπτωκαλύπτω; future
καλύψω; 1 aorist
ἐκάλυψα; passive, present infinitive
καλύπτεσθαι; perfect participle
κεκαλυμμενος; (allied with
κρύπτω;
Vanicek, p. 1091;
Curtius, Das Verbum, i. 242 ;) the
Sept. for
כִּסָּה; often in
Homer, Tragg. and other poets, more rarely in prose;
to cover, cover up; properly:
τινα,
Luke 23:30;
τί τίνι, a thing with anything,
Luke 8:16; passive
Matthew 8:24; tropically,
to hide, veil, i. e. to hinder the knowledge of a thing: perfect passive,
Matthew 10:26;
2 Corinthians 4:3;
πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν, not to regard or impute them, i. e. to pardon them,
1 Peter 4:8; to procure pardon of them from God,
James 5:20; cf.
Psalm 84:3 () (2); f (f) (Compare: ἀνακαλύπτω, ἀποκαλύπτω, ἐπικαλύπτω, κατακαλύπτω, παρακαλύπτω, περικαλύπτω, συγκαλύπτω.)