Strong's Concordance
chlamus: a chlamys or short cloak
Original Word: χλαμύς, ύδος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: chlamus
Phonetic Spelling: (khlam-ooce')
Short Definition: a short cloak
Definition: a short cloak, worn by military officers and soldiers.
HELPS Word-studies
5511 xlamýs – "a short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors, etc" (J. Thayer) – the Latin paludamenum, the garment of "dignity" (office) worn over the 5509 (xitōn/"tunic").
5511 /xlamýs ("a short, official robe") was put on Christ (perhaps taken from a Roman officer) to heighten His humiliation.
[For other terms referring to clothes worn in the NT see Strong's numbers: 1742, 1903, 2067, 2440, 2441, 2689, 4018,4158, 4629, 4749, 5341.
"5511 (xlamýs) was a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors (2 Macc 12:35; Josephus, Ant. 5.1.10), a soldier's sagum or scarf. Carr (Cambridge Greek Testament) suggests that it may have been a worn-out scarf of Pilate's" (WP, 1, 229).]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5511: χλαμύςχλαμύς,
χλαμύδος,
ἡ (according to the testimony of
Pollux 10, 38, 164, first used by
Sappho),
a chlamys, an outer garment usually worn over the
χιτών (which see); specifically, the Latin
paludamentum (which see in Rich,
Dict. of Antiq., under the word, at the end), a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors, etc. (2 Macc. 12:35;
Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 10;
Herodian,
Aelian, others; often in
Plutarch):
Matthew 27:28, 31 (
A. V. robe; see Meyer at the passage;
Trench, Synonyms, § 1.; Rich (as above) under the word Chlamys; and other references under the word
ἱμάτιον).
