Strong's Concordance
ekduó: to take off, to put off
Original Word: ἐκδύωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekduó
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-doo'-o)
Short Definition: I put off, take off, strip off
Definition: I put off, take off, strip off, with acc. of person or garment or both.
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.)
