κρυφῆ
kryphē · G2931 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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in secret, in private, secretly, privately
Pertaining to not being able to be known by the public but known by some in-group or by those immediately involved
ExamplesEphesians 5:12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- λάθρα láthra · G2977 · in secret, in private, secretly
- Both terms are adverbs denoting concealed or private action — 'in secret, privately' — sharing the identical precise sense. Although the target is used only once, the semantic convergence is specific and directly supported by their matching meaning.
In the other Testament 2 words
- סֵתֶר çêther · H5643 · cover, shelter, disguise
- סֵתֶר (çêther, H5643) denotes a place or state of concealment/secrecy with broader nominal range (covering, hiding place, secret place), whereas κρυφῆ (kryphē, G2931) functions as an adverb specifically meaning "in secret/privately" as a manner of action.
- לָט lâṭ · H3909 · quietly, softly, privately
- Hebrew לָט covers a broader semantic range including 'enchantment' and 'softly' alongside the 'secretly/privily' sense that overlaps with Greek κρυφῆ's focused meaning of 'privately/secretly,' making κρυφῆ the more register-specific term for concealed or private action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- In secret, in private, secretly, privately28.71
- κρυφῇ describes doing something privately or in secret. Ephesians 5:12 states, “it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret,” the κρυφῇ naming this secrecy in which the shameful deeds are done.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L WH κρυφῇ; cf. εἰκῇ, at the beginning), adverb, (κρύπτω), secretly, in secret: Eph…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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