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Strong's #3871 - παρακαλύπτω
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- to cover over, cover up, hide, conceal
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παρ παρα-κᾰλύπτω,
cover by hanging something beside, cloak, disguise, τῇ μέθῃ τὴν διάνοιαν Plu. Demetr. 52: — Med., cover one's face, Pl. R. 439e, Plu. Alc. 34; πρὸς τὸ δεινόν Id. Pomp. 60 (Act. in same sense, Id. Per. 35): metaph., παρακαλυπτομένου τοῦ λόγου veiling itself, Pl. R. 503a, cf. Plu. 2.370f; π. τὴν ἀλήθειαν Ph. 2.196; set aside, ignore, τὸν θεόν ib. 189.
παρακαλύπτω: to cover over, cover up, hide, conceal: tropically, ἦν παρακεκαλυμμένον ἀπ' αὐτῶν ((it was concealed from them), a Hebraism, on which see in ἀποκρύπτω, b.), Luke 9:45 (Ezekiel 22:26; Plato, Plutarch, others).
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";received from one’s fathers,"; which occurs ter in Acts, may be illustrated by P Eleph 5.22 (B.C. 284–3) ἔχω λόγον καὶ κεκόμιζμαι ἅπαντα τῶν πατρώιων, P Oxy III. 483.24 (A.D. 108) τοὺς πατρῴους θεούς (cf. Acts 24:14), Chrest. I. 116.4 (ii/iii A.D.) ἡγοῦ μάλιστα τοὺς πατρῴους καὶ σέ [β ]ου Ἶσιν Σαρᾶπιν κτλ., ib, 96vi. 22 (A.D. 215) εἰ ]ς ἐπ [ιμέ ]λ [ε ]ι [α ]ν τοῦ πατρῴου ἡμ [ῶν θεοῦ, P Lond 973b.6 (iii/A.D.) (= III. p. 213) προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ. . . παρὰ τοῖς πατρῴοις θεοῖς, P Oxy VII. 1025.13 (late iii/A.D.) συνεορτάσοντες ἐν τῇ πατρω ̣α ̣ η ̣̔[μῶν ] ἑορτῇ γενεθλίῳ τ ̣ο ̣υ ̣̑ Κρο ̣ν ̣ο ̣υ ̣ θεοῦ μεγίστου, ";in order to celebrate with us our traditional festival on the birthday of Cronus the most great god"; (Ed.), and from the inscrr. Syll 571 (= .3 987).35 (iv/B.C.) το ]ῦ Διὸς τοῦ Πατρώιου.
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