adjective
apokrufos
Strong’sG614
hidden away, secret
stem apokruf-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀπόκρυφος, -ον
(< ἀποκρύπτω), [in LXX Chiefly for סֵתֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G614 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-ok'-roo-fos
secret; by implication, treasured
Fromfrom G613;
King Jameshid, kept secret.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hidden, concealed, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ἀποκρύφφ in secret, Refs 5th c.BC+hidden, stored up, NT; underhand, μηδὲν ἀ. πεποιῆσθαιRefs
2 with genitive, ἀπόκρυφον πατρός unknown to him, Refs 5th c.BC+
II obscure, recondite, hard to understand, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἀ. σύμβολαδέλτων, of hieroglyphics, Refs; [βίβλος] Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb -φως secretly, LXX+2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apokrufos | apokrufas | apokrufem2×ἀπόκρυφον | apokrufois1×ἀπόκρυφοι | apokrufais | apokrufeim |
| object accusative | apokrufon | apokrufan | apokrufoin | apokrufain | ||
| direct address vocative | apokrufor | apokrufar | apokrufoir | apokrufair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | apokrufou | apokrufau | apokrufeu | apokrufoiu | apokrufaiu | apokrufeiu |
| to, for dative | apokrufo | apokrufa | apokrufe | apokrufoi | apokrufai | apokrufei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apokruf is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
apokrufem“secret”subject or objectdirect singular2×
Mark 4:22“secret”… ean mē hina faneriteia, oude geneta apokrufem alla hina erchateia eis fanerem.… that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light.
Luke 8:17“hidden”… kruptem hem ouk fanerem geneti, oude apokrufem hem ouk mē gnōskiteia kai eis …… is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.
apokrufois“hidden”subjectnominative plural1×
Colossians 2:3… tois thēsaurois tau sofiau kai gnōsiau apokrufois.in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and …