Strong G2571κάλυμμα
veil
- Transliteration
- kaluma
- Pronunciation
- kal'-oo-mah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G2572; a cover that is veil: - vail.
Detailed definition
κάλυμμα, -τος, τό
(καλύπτω), [in LXX: Num.3:25 4:8 ff. (מְכַסֶּה), Exo_34:33 ff. (מַסְוֶה), etc.;]
a covering, veil: 2Co.3:13-16 †
(AS)
(καλύπτω), [in LXX: Num.3:25 4:8 ff. (מְכַסֶּה), Exo_34:33 ff. (מַסְוֶה), etc.;]
a covering, veil: 2Co.3:13-16 †
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2571 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vail4
First verses
- 2 Corinthians 3:13And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
- 2 Corinthians 3:14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 3:15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
- 2 Corinthians 3:16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
κάλυμμα [ᾰ], ατος, τό,
(κᾰλύπτω) head-covering, hood, veil, κ. κυάνεον dark veil worn in mourning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.93, “hymnus ad Cererem” 42)]; Χρύσεον κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.38; ὁ Χρησμὸς οὐκέτ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων ἔσται δεδορκὼς νεογάμου νύμφης δίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1178 (but _metaphorically_, δείξω τάδ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων)] 'I will lift the veil', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1078))]; λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχους᾽ [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 372, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 532, “fragment” 320.5, 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus 1.18; κάρα καλύμμασι κρυψάμενον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry); Χαλᾶτε πᾶν κάλυμμ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν [prev. author] “El.” 1468; Μωυσῆς ἐτίθει κ. ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον NT.2Cor.3.13.)]
2 fishing-net shaped like a sack, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.82)]; βουλευτοῖσιν ἐν καλύμμασιν, of the garment thrown by Clytaemnestra over her husband, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 494.)]
3 skull (as the brain's covering), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 906.)]
4 grave, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 7.227 (3rd c.BC(?): Diotimus Epigrammaticus).)]
5 in animals, the covering of the gills of fishes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505a2)]; operculum of testaceans, [Refs ([prev. work] 547b5)]; eyelid, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.66.)]
6 covering of honeycomb, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624b31.)]
7 shell of fruit, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 269.)]
8 shutter, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.91.)]
9 sheathing-planks for a roof, [Refs (“IG” 22.1668.57)]; but, slabs for closing coffers, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work]4.1484.57 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 11(2).144 A 42 (Delos, 4th c.BC).)]
10 perhaps paving-slab, [Refs (Milet. Ergebnisse 7.60.53.)]
(κᾰλύπτω) head-covering, hood, veil, κ. κυάνεον dark veil worn in mourning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.93, “hymnus ad Cererem” 42)]; Χρύσεον κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.38; ὁ Χρησμὸς οὐκέτ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων ἔσται δεδορκὼς νεογάμου νύμφης δίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1178 (but _metaphorically_, δείξω τάδ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων)] 'I will lift the veil', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1078))]; λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχους᾽ [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 372, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 532, “fragment” 320.5, 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus 1.18; κάρα καλύμμασι κρυψάμενον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry); Χαλᾶτε πᾶν κάλυμμ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν [prev. author] “El.” 1468; Μωυσῆς ἐτίθει κ. ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον NT.2Cor.3.13.)]
2 fishing-net shaped like a sack, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.82)]; βουλευτοῖσιν ἐν καλύμμασιν, of the garment thrown by Clytaemnestra over her husband, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 494.)]
3 skull (as the brain's covering), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 906.)]
4 grave, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 7.227 (3rd c.BC(?): Diotimus Epigrammaticus).)]
5 in animals, the covering of the gills of fishes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505a2)]; operculum of testaceans, [Refs ([prev. work] 547b5)]; eyelid, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.66.)]
6 covering of honeycomb, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624b31.)]
7 shell of fruit, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 269.)]
8 shutter, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.91.)]
9 sheathing-planks for a roof, [Refs (“IG” 22.1668.57)]; but, slabs for closing coffers, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work]4.1484.57 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 11(2).144 A 42 (Delos, 4th c.BC).)]
10 perhaps paving-slab, [Refs (Milet. Ergebnisse 7.60.53.)]