Greek noun (neuter) · G2571
κάλυμα
kalymakal'-oo-mah
veil
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kályma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2571is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2571
a cover, i.e. veil
The King James renders it: vail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kalyma is rendered "veil". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 3:13We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
The first use
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
2 Corinthians 3:13κάλυμμα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a veil2
- veil2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καλύπτω | kalypto | to cover | Uses8 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κάλυμμα4
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
2 Corinthians
four uses
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
- κάλυμμαkalummanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a veil
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
- κάλυμμαkalummanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: veil
And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
- κάλυμμαkalummanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a veil
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- κάλυμμαkalummanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: veil
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.