What Does Matthew 10:26 Mean in the King James?
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What is hidden from sight is not hidden from knowing: the verse names concealment as a covering that will be lifted.
THE MEANING
Fear loses its claim when concealment cannot decide what is true. What is covered is uncovered; what is hidden becomes known. Disclosure may be uncomfortable, but concealment does not remain beyond knowing forever.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that whatever others manage to hide is therefore lost or unknowable. The verse says a covering can delay disclosure, but cannot make concealment final.
THE ROOT
ἀποκαλυφθήσεται
apokalyphthēsetai
GROWS FROM
καλύπτω
kalyptō
Cover or conceal; with apo-, uncover or disclose.
“Covered” and “revealed” share the same Greek root: the hidden thing is uncovered. Revelation here is not something new being made; it is a covering being removed.
ALSO GROWS
kalymma: A veil or covering.
κάλυμμα
The same root names the veil that is taken away in 2 Corinthians 3:16.
apokalypsis: Disclosure or unveiling.
ἀποκάλυψις
This noun carries the same image of uncovering into the word often rendered “revelation.”
κρυπτόν
krypton
GROWS FROM
κρύπτω
kryptō
Conceal or keep out of sight.
“hid” in this verse is krypton. The verse uses a second word for concealment alongside the covering image. Whether something is covered or hidden away, it does not remain beyond knowing.
ALSO GROWS
kryptos: Hidden or secret.
κρυπτός
This adjective shows the same root describing what is kept out of view.
apokryphos: Concealed or hidden away.
ἀπόκρυφος
Its use for hidden things echoes the verse’s assurance that secrecy does not make something unknowable.
γνωσθήσεται
gnōsthēsetai
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
ginōskō
Know, perceive, recognize.
The promise is not merely that a hidden fact exists somewhere; it is that it becomes known. This root carries the sense of knowing through recognition and encounter, not information alone.
ALSO GROWS
gnōsis: Knowledge or knowing.
γνῶσις
It names the knowledge toward which the verse’s hidden thing moves.
epiginōskō: Recognize or come to know.
ἐπιγινώσκω
This related verb makes the movement from hiddenness to recognition especially clear.
THE PATTERN
A covering can conceal what is present, but cannot make it permanently unknowable.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.THE THREAD
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.“The vail” comes from the same Greek cover-root as “covered” and “revealed” here. Both verses picture disclosure as the removal of a covering, so what was obscured can be seen.
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