Word

παρακαλύπτω

parakalýptō · G3871 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to cause to not be known, to hide, to conceal, to make secret

    To cause something to be unknown or to be known only with great difficulty

    Examples

    Luke 9:45 But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not comprehend it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

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
ἀποκρύπτω apokrýptō · G613 · to keep secret, to conceal
Both verbs denote concealment: παρακαλύπτω describes covering or veiling something from view, while ἀποκρύπτω denotes hiding something away completely, out of sight. The two are near-synonyms within the vocabulary of concealment, differing in how thoroughly the object is hidden.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To cause to not be known, to hide, to conceal, to make secret28.82
παρακαλύπτω names the act of keeping something hidden from comprehension, as Luke describes the disciples' inability to grasp Jesus's words: “But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not comprehend it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.” (Luke 9:45)
Word family 12 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : to cover over, cover up, hide, conceal: tropically, ἦν παρακεκαλυμμένον ἀπ' αὐτῶν ((it…
: to cover over, cover up, hide, conceal: tropically, ἦν παρακεκαλυμμένον ἀπ' αὐτῶν ((it was concealed from them), a Hebraism, on which see in ἀποκρύπτω, b.), Lk 9:45 (Ezek 22:26; Plato, Plutarch, others).

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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