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Matthew 5:14 κρυβῆναι to be hidden

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

Here: Passive verb, "to be hidden", describing the event as a whole. Nobody could manage to conceal such a city. Coming just after the persecution of verses 10–12, it quietly rules out going into hiding.

Matthew 11:25 ἔκρυψας You did hide

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Here: "You hid." The tense presents it as a completed act. God is the one doing the hiding; the wise are not simply failing to find it.

Matthew 13:35 κεκρυμμένα hidden

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

Here: “Things that have been hidden.” The Greek tense is the kind for a past action whose result still stands: hidden then and still hidden until now. The passive suggests God did the hiding. It echoes 11:25 (“you hid these things”) and the treasure hidden in a field in 13:44.

Matthew 13:44 κεκρυμμένῳ ἔκρυψεν. hidden, hid.

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Here: Perfect passive participle: it had been hidden and still lay hidden. Someone put it there long ago and it stays out of sight until it is found. This is the same form Matthew used in 13:35 for things 'hidden since the foundation of the world.'

Matthew 25:18 ἔκρυψεν he hid

But the servant who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money.

Here: "He hid" (concealed, stored away). The same verb is used of the treasure hidden in a field (13:44). He kept the money safe, but it did nothing.

Matthew 25:25 ἔκρυψα I hid

So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what belongs to you.’

Here: 'I hid.' The main verb of the sentence, stated as a single finished act. In Matthew, hiding is the opposite of what a lamp or a city on a hill is for (5:14–15).

Luke 18:34 κεκρυμμένον hidden

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

Luke 19:42 ἐκρύβη they are hidden

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Here: Aorist passive: "it was hidden", or "it has been hidden". The hiding has already happened. The passive does not name who hid it, and in Luke that kind of passive often hints that God is behind it (compare 18:34).

John 8:59 ἐκρύβη hid Himself

At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

Here: The form is passive, but in Greek of this period this passive regularly means 'hid himself' (as in Genesis 3:8 in the Greek Old Testament). It could also be read 'was hidden', perhaps by God. The verse does not say how: whether he slipped into the festival crowd or was concealed in some unusual way.

John 12:36 ἐκρύβη He was hidden

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

Here: Passive in form, 'was hidden'. In practice it usually means 'hid himself' (as in 8:59). Some hear a hint that God is the one hiding him. Either way, the light is now out of their sight.

John 19:38 κεκρυμμένος concealed

Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.

Here: A perfect passive participle: "having been hidden," meaning a settled, ongoing state of concealment. Joseph was not hiding just today; he had been a disciple in hiding.

Colossians 3:3 κέκρυπται has been hidden

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Here: Perfect passive: 'has been hidden and stays hidden.' The perfect tense describes a past act whose result continues. The passive implies that God did the hiding. The life is out of sight for now, and verse 4 says it will one day be 'made visible.'

1 Timothy 5:25 κρυβῆναι to be concealed

In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even the ones that are inconspicuous cannot remain hidden.

Here: "To be hidden" or "to stay hidden." The tense presents the hiding as a settled outcome: such works cannot end up concealed for good.

Hebrews 11:23 ἐκρύβη he was hidden

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.

Here: "He was hidden". The passive keeps Moses as subject while the parents act. It means concealment from the authorities, an act of defying the state.

Revelation 2:17 κεκρυμμένου hidden

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

Here: Perfect passive participle: it was hidden in the past and stays hidden now. The implied hider is God. It recalls the jar of manna laid up before God in the ark (Exod 16:32–34) and the Jewish hope that hidden manna would come down again in the messianic age.

Revelation 6:15 ἔκρυψαν hid

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Here: A simple past tense: John reports what he saw happen. The same verb comes back in v.16 ('hide us'), and it echoes Isaiah 2:10 ('hide in the dust').

Revelation 6:16 κρύψατε do hide

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Here: Second urgent command: 'conceal us, cover us from view'. It recalls Adam and Eve, who 'hid themselves from the face of the LORD God' (Genesis 3:8 in the Greek Old Testament).