is “a covering, a means of hiding” (epi, “upon,” kalupto, “to cover”); hence, “a pretext, a cloke, for wickedness,” 1Pe 2:16<\/span>. In the Sept. it is used in Exo 26:14<\/span>; Exo 39:21<\/span>, “coverings;” 2Sa 17:19<\/span>; Job 19:29<\/span>, “deceit.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n either from pro, “before,” and phaino, “to cause to appear shine,” or, more probably, from pro, and phemi, “to say,” is rendered “cloke” (of covetousness) in 1Th 2:5<\/span>; “excuse” in Joh 15:22<\/span> (AV “cloke”); “pretense” in Mat 23:14<\/span>; Mar 12:40<\/span>; Luk 20:47<\/span> (AV “show”); Phi 1:18<\/span>; “color” in Act 27:30<\/span>. It signifies the assuming of something so as to disguise one’s real motives. See PRETENSE, SHOW. <\/p>\n Cloke (pretense) is “a covering, a means of hiding” (epi, “upon,” kalupto, “to cover”); hence, “a pretext, a cloke, for wickedness,” 1Pe 2:16. In the Sept. it is used in Exo 26:14; Exo 39:21, “coverings;” 2Sa 17:19; Job 19:29, “deceit.” either from pro, “before,” and phaino, “to cause to appear shine,” or, more probably, from … Continue reading “Cloke (pretense)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"