kryptō · hide

What it means

kryptō (κρύπτω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hide”.

Conceal.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put something where it cannot be seen, or to be out of sight.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hidden ×10
• hid ×7
• hide ×1
• secret one ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Luke×3
• John×3
• Colossians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 5:14

  You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

• Matthew 11:25

  At that time Jesus responded and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and the intelligent and revealed them to little children.

• Matthew 13:35

  so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he says, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will pour out things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

• Matthew 13:44

  The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

• Matthew 25:18

  But the one who had received the one went away, dug in the ground, and hid his master’s money.

• Matthew 25:25

  and being afraid, I went off and hid your talent in the ground; look, you have what is yours.’

• Luke 13:21

  It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

• Luke 18:34

  And they understood none of these things, and this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what was being said.

• Luke 19:42

  saying, “If you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

• John 8:59

  So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

• John 12:36

  While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus spoke these things, and he went away and was hidden from them.

• John 19:38

  After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. So he came and took away his body.

• Colossians 3:3

  For you died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

• 1 Timothy 5:25

  Likewise also good works are evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden.

• Hebrews 11:23

  By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

• Revelation 2:17

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written that no one knows except the one who receives it.

• Revelation 6:15

  And the kings of the earth and the great ones and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

• Revelation 6:16

  and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;

And 1 more times.