Strong's #2665: katapetasma (pronounced kat-ap-et'-as-mah)

from a compound of 2596 and a congener of 4072; something spread thoroughly, i.e. (specially) the door screen (to the Most Holy Place) in the Jewish Temple:--vail.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katapetasma

1) a veil spread out, a curtain

1a) the name given to the two curtains in the temple at Jerusalem, one of them at the entrance to the temple separated the Holy Place from the outer court, the other veiled the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a compound of G2596 and a congener of G4072

Citing in TDNT: 3:628, 420

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Matthew 27:51: "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in"
Mark 15:38: "And the veil of the temple was rent in twain"
Luke 23:45: "was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst."
Hebrews 6:19: "into that within the veil;"
Hebrews 9:3: "after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all;"
Hebrews 10:20: "for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;"