Lexical Summary
kaluptó: To cover, to hide, to veil, to conceal
Original Word: καλύπτω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: kaluptó
Pronunciation: kä-lüp'-tō
Phonetic Spelling: (kal-oop'-to)
KJV: cover, hide
NASB: cover, covers, veiled, being covered, concealed
Word Origin: [akin to G2813 (κλέπτω - steal) and G2928 (κρύπτω - hidden)]
1. to cover up
{literally or figuratively}
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
cover, hide.
Akin to klepto and krupto; to cover up (literally or figuratively) -- cover, hide.
see GREEK klepto
see GREEK krupto
HELPS Word-studies
2572 kalýptō – properly, to cover; (figuratively) keep secret, hidden; "covered over" (concealed).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originakin to kalubé (hut, cabin)
Definitionto cover
NASB Translationbeing covered (1), concealed (1), cover (2), covers (2), veiled (2).
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