noun · neuter
epikalummem
Strong’sG1942
a covering, cloak, pretext
stem epikalumm-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
ἐπι-κάλυμμα, -τος, τό
(< ἐπικαλύπτω), [in LXX: Ex 26:14 39:21(34), (מְכַסֶּה), IV Ki 17:19 (מָסָךְ), Jb 19:29 (aliter in Heb.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1942 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ee-kal'-oo-mah
a covering, i.e. (figuratively) pretext
Fromfrom G1943;
King Jamescloke.
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
cover, veil, πλοῦτος πολλῶν ἐ. ἐστιν κακῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 90.
II. in animals, covering of any orifice, of the gills of fish, Refs; of the opercula of crabs and other crustacea, Refs
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | epikalummem | epikalummeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | epikalummeu | epikalummeiu |
| to, for dative | epikalumme | epikalummei |
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
epikalumme 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
epikalummem1×
1 Peter 2:16hōs eleutherois, kai mē hōs epikalummem echarōntois tau kakiau tan eleutherian, alla …… not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of …