noun · neuter
katapetasmem
Strong’sG2665
a veil, curtain
stem katapetasm-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
† κατα-πέτασμα, -τος, τό
(= cl. παραπέτασμα), [in LXX chiefly for פָּרֹכֶת (the veil of the Holy of Holies), Ex 26:31, Le 21:23, al.; also for מָסָךְ (the outer veil), Ex 35:12, Nu 3:26, al. (elsewhere κάλυμμα);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2665 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-ap-et'-as-mah
something spread thoroughly, i.e. (specially) the door screen (to the Most Holy Place) in the Jewish Temple
Fromfrom a compound of G2596 and a congener of G4072;
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
curtain, veil, Refs 3rd c.AD+; especially the veil of the Temple, LXX+NT, etc.; properly the inner veil, the outer being τὸ κάλυμμα, compare Refs 1st c.AD+.
2 κ. τραπέζης table-cover, Refs 4th c.BC+
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 | katapetasmem3×καταπέτασμα | katapetasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | katapetasmeu2×καταπετάσματος | katapetasmeiu |
| to, for dative | katapetasme | katapetasmei |
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
katapetasme 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
katapetasmem“curtain”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Matthew 27:51“curtain”kai idou tem katapetasmem tou naou schizita apo anōthen heōs …… that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The …
Mark 15:38“curtain”kai tem katapetasmem tou naou schizita eis duo apo …And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to …
Luke 23:45“curtain”tou hēliou ekliparantou, schizita de tem katapetasmem tou naou mesem.The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
katapetasmeu“curtain”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Hebrews 6:19… kai eiserchorōntan eis tem esōterem teu katapetasmeu,… enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
Hebrews 10:20… hodan prosfatan kai zōarōntan dia teu katapetasmeu, houtem atō tau sarkau autou,… way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
katapetasmem1×
Hebrews 9:3meta de tem deuterem katapetasmem skēnas tas legorōntas Hagieim Hagieiu,Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most …