λάθρα
láthra · G2977 · Greek · 4 occurrences
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
ExamplesMatthew 1:19 And her husband Joseph, since he was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.
Matthew 2:7 Then Herod secretly called for the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared.
John 11:28 When she had said this, she left and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
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
- κρυφῆ kryphē · G2931 · in secret, in private, secretly
- Both terms function as adverbs denoting actions performed in secret or privately, away from public observation. κρυφῆ (kryphē, G2931) κρυφῆ appears rarely in the textual tradition, while λάθρα (láthra, G2977) λάθρα shows broader attestation, but both convey the core sense of concealment or privacy in manner of action.
In the other Testament 1 word
- סֵתֶר çêther · H5643 · cover, shelter, disguise
- Hebrew noun denoting a physical or metaphorical place of concealment (secret place, covering, hiding place), contrasted with Greek adverb denoting manner of action performed in concealment (privately, secretly); the Hebrew term emphasizes the location/state of hiddenness while the Greek emphasizes the covert manner of conduct.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- In secret, in private, secretly, privately28.71
- λάθρα describes doing something privately or secretly. Matthew 1:19 recounts that Joseph, since he was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace Mary, “planned to send her away secretly,” the λάθρᾳ naming this quiet, private manner in which he intended to act.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so R G T Tr) (in Homer λάθρῃ, from λανθάνω, λαθεῖν), and L (WH K C (see the latter's…
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
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