ἘΠΕΚΑΛΥΨΑΝ, ἐπεκαλυψαν
EPEKALYPSAN, epekalypsan
Sounds Like: eh-peh-ka-LYP-san
Translations: they covered, they hid, they concealed
From the root: ΕΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the preposition 'ἐπί' (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'over', and the verb 'καλύπτω' (kalyptō), meaning 'to cover' or 'to hide'. In its inflected form, it means 'they covered' or 'they hid'. It describes the action of placing something over another object or person to conceal it, or to provide protection or shelter. It can be used in contexts where something is physically covered, or where information or a situation is hidden or concealed.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G1943 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 5:241
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Jeremiah — 14:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΕΚΑΛΥΠΤΟΝ — they were covering over, they were hiding, they were concealing
- ἘΠΕΚΑΛΥΦΘΗΣΑΝ — were covered, were hidden, were concealed
- ἘΠΕΚΑΛΥΨΑΤΗΝ — they covered, they concealed, they hid
- ἘΠΕΚΑΛΥΨΕΝ — covered, hid, veiled
- ἘΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΟΥΣΑΙ — covering, concealing, hiding, veiling
- ἘΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΩΝ — covering, hiding, concealing, a covering, a hiding, a concealing
- ἘΠΙΚΑΛΥΨΑΤΩ — let it cover, let it conceal, let it hide
- ἘΠΙΚΑΛΥΨΕΙΝ — to cover, to hide, to conceal, to veil
- ἘΠΙΚΑΛΥΨΟΝ — cover, conceal, hide
- ἘΠΙΚΕΚΑΛΥΜΜΕΝΟΣ — covered, having been covered, veiled, having been veiled
- ΕΠΕΚΑΛΥΦΘΗΣΑΝ — they were covered, they were hidden, they were concealed, they were veiled
- ΕΠΕΚΑΛΥΨΑΝ — they covered, they concealed, they hid
- ΕΠΕΚΑΛΥΨΕΝ — covered, hid, concealed, overshadowed
- ΕΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΩ — to cover, to conceal, to hide, to cloak
- ΕΠΙΚΑΛΥΠΤΩΝ — covering, concealing, hiding, a covering, a concealing
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