Lexical Summary ekdyō: to take off, to put off Original Word: ἐκδύωTransliteration: ekdyō Phonetic Spelling: (ek-doo'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to take off, to put off Meaning: to take off, to put off Strong's Concordance strip, take off from, unclothe. From ek and the base of duno; to cause to sink out of, i.e. (specially as of clothing) to divest -- strip, take off from, unclothe. see GREEK ek see GREEK duno Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1562: ἐκδύωἐκδύω: 1 aorist ἐξεδυσα; 1 aorist middle ἐξεδυσάμην; (δύω); to take off: τινα, to strip one of his garments, Matthew 27:28 (L WH marginal reading ἐνδυς.); Luke 10:30; τινα τί (as in Greek from Homer down) (a thing from a person): Matthew 27:31; Mark 15:20; middle, to take off from oneself, to put off one's raiment (Xenophon, Ag. 1, 28; Hell. 3, 4, 19); figuratively, to put off the body, the clothing of the soul (A. V. be unclothed): 2 Corinthians 5:4; the reading ἐκδυσάμενοι, adopted in 2 Corinthians 5:3 by certain critics (e. g. Mill, Tdf. 7, Reiche, others), is due to a correction by the copyists; see γυμνός, 1 d. (Compare: ἀπεκδύομαι.) |
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