Word Summary
apokryphos: hidden
Original Word: ἀπόκρυφοςTransliteration: apokryphos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok'-roo-fos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: hidden
Meaning: hidden
Strong's Concordance
hidden, kept secret.
From apokrupto; secret; by implication, treasured -- hid, kept secret.
see GREEK apokrupto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 614: ἀπόκρυφοςἀπόκρυφος,
ἀπόκρυφον (
ἀποκρύπτω),
hidden, secreted:
Mark 4:22;
Luke 8:17.
stored up:
Colossians 2:3. (
Daniel 11:43 (
Theod.);
Isaiah 45:3; 1 Macc. 1:23;
Xenophon,
Euripides; (cf.
Lightfoot on the word, Colossians, the passage cited and
Ignatius i. 351f).)