Dictionaries :: Cover, Covering

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Cover, Covering:

signifies "to cover," Mat 8:24; 10;26; Luk 8:16; 23:30; Jam 5:20 (RV); 1Pe 4:8; to veil, in 2Cr 4:3 (RV; AV, "hid").
See HIDE.

Note: Cp. the corresponding noun kalumma, "a veil," 2Cr 3:13-16.
See VEIL.

Cover, Covering:

"to cover up or over" (epi, "over"), is used in Rom 4:7, lit., "whose sins are covered over." Cp. epikalumma, "a cloke," 1Pe 2:16.

Cover, Covering:

"to cover around" (peri, "around"), e.g., the face, and so, to blindfold, is translated "cover" in Mar 14:65, "blindfold" in Luk 22:64. In Hbr 9:4, it signifies "to overlay."
See BLINDFOLD, OVERLAY.

Cover, Covering:

lit., "to cover together;" the sun--, however, is intensive, and the verb signifies "to cover wholly, to cover up," Luk 12:2.

Cover, Covering:

"to cover up" (kata, intensive), in the Middle Voice, "to cover oneself," is used in 1Cr 11:6, 7 (RV, "veiled").

Note: In 1Cr 11:4, "having his head covered" is, lit., "having (something) down the head."

Cover, Covering:

lit. denotes "something thrown around" (peri, "around," ballo, "to throw"); hence, "a veil, covering," 1Cr 11:15 (marg.), or "a mantle around the body, a vesture," Hbr 1:12.
See CLOTHING, Note (1), VESTURE.

Cover, Covering:

"a covering" (skepazo, "to cover"), strictly, "a roofing," then, "any kind of shelter or covering," is used in the plural in 1Ti 6:8 (AV, "rainment;" RV, "covering").