adjective
krufaiem
Strong’sG2927
hidden, secret
stem krufai-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
κρυφαῖος, -αία, -αῖον
(< κρύφα = κρυφῆ), [in LXX for מִסְתָּר, Je 23:24, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2927 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkroop-tos'
concealed, i.e. private
Fromfrom G2928;
King Jameshid(-den), inward(-ly), 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, secret, Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. τάφρος a trench covered and concealed by planks and earth, Refs 5th c.BC+ (Lyric poetry); κρυπτᾷ ἐν ἥβᾳ, of young Orestes who was concealed in Phocis, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς πολιτείας τὸ κ. the secret character of the [Spartan] institutions, Refs 5th c.BC+ secret service, used by the Athenians in the subjectstates, Refs 4th c.AD+; of persons, in disguise, Refs 5th c.BC+: in Medicine texts, deep-seated, Refs 5th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | krufaios | krufaias | krufaiem | krufaiois | krufaiais | krufaieim |
| object accusative | krufaion | krufaian | krufaioin | krufaiain | ||
| direct address vocative | krufaior | krufaiar | krufaioir | krufaiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | krufaiou | krufaiau | krufaieu | krufaioiu | krufaiaiu | krufaieiu |
| to, for dative | krufaio | krufaia | krufaie2×κρυφαίῳ | krufaioi | krufaiai | krufaiei |
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
krufai 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
krufaie“secret”to, fordative singular2×
Matthew 6:18“secret”… to patro su to en te krufaie; kai tos patros su tos bleparōntos …… only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is …
Matthew 6:18… patros su tos bleparōntos en te krufaie apodōati si.… who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.