noun · neuter
kalummem
Strong’sG2571
a veil
stem kalumm-4 times in the New Testament1 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.
κάλυμμα, -τος, τό
(< καλύπτω), [in LXX: Nu 3:25 4:8 ff. (מִכְסֶה), Ex 34:33 ff. (מַסְוֶה), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2571 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkal'-oo-mah
a cover, i.e. veil
Fromfrom G2572;
King Jamesvail.
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
(κᾰλύπτω) head-covering, hood, veil, κ. κυάνεον dark veil worn in mourning, Refs 8th c.BC+; Χρύσεον κ. Refs 5th c.BC+ 'I will lift the veil', Refs 5th c.BC+; λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχους᾽ NT+5th c.BC+
2 fishing-net shaped like a sack, Refs 2nd c.AD+; βουλευτοῖσιν ἐν καλύμμασιν, of the garment thrown by Clytaemnestra over her husband, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 skull (as the brain's covering), Refs 2nd c.BC+
4 grave, Refs 3rd c.BC+
5 in animals, the covering of the gills of fishes, Refs 4th c.BC+; operculum of testaceans, Refs; eyelid, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 covering of honeycomb, Refs 4th c.BC+
7 shell of fruit, Refs 2nd c.BC+
8 shutter, Refs 1st c.BC+
9 sheathing-planks for a roof, Refs; but, slabs for closing coffers, Refs 4th c.BC+
10 perhaps paving-slab, 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 | kalummem3×κάλυμμα | kalummeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | kalummeu | kalummeiu |
| to, for dative | kalumme | kalummei |
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
kalumme 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kalummem“veil”subject or objectdirect singular3×
2 Corinthians 3:14… gar tau sēmeron hēmerau tem autem kalummem epi ta anagnōsia tau palaiau diathēkau …… For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the …
2 Corinthians 3:15… heōs sēmeron hēnika an anagnōskoteiō Mōusos kalummem epi tan kardian autoiu keiotō;… day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:16… ean epistrefateia pros kurion, periairotō tem kalummem.… anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
kalummem1×
2 Corinthians 3:13kai ouk kathaper Mōusos tithate kalummem epi tem prosōpem autou, pros tem …… like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the …