ἐπενδύομαι
ependýomai · G1902 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to put on over, to put on an additional garment
To put a garment on over existing clothing
Examples2 Corinthians 5:2 For indeed, in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,
2 Corinthians 5:4 For indeed, we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οἰκητήριονdwelling place 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπιποθέωto long for 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀμφιέννυμι amphiénnymi · G294 · to clothe, to adorn
- ἀμφιέννυμι means to clothe or array oneself and overlaps semantically with ἐπενδύομαι in expressing the action of putting on garments. The distinction is that ἐπενδύομαι emphasizes putting on an additional or outer garment 'over' what one already has, while ἀμφιέννυμι is more general clothing without that layering nuance.
- περιβάλλω peribállō · G4016 · to put around, to clothe, to surround
- περιβάλλω in middle voice means to clothe oneself, to put something around oneself. It shares with ἐπενδύομαι the notion of donning clothing, though περιβάλλω emphasizes wrapping or throwing around (περι-) rather than putting on over/upon (ἐπι-).
In the other Testament 1 word
- לָבַשׁ lâbash · H3847 · dressed, arrayed, to put on (oneself)
- לָבַשׁ is the standard Hebrew verb for putting on clothing and serves as the natural translation equivalent for the Greek middle voice ἐπενδύομαι in contexts of clothing oneself. While לָבַשׁ does not carry the specific prefix notion of 'over/upon' that ἐπι- adds, it is the primary Hebrew term translators would use for this reflexive clothing action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To put on over, to put on an additional garment49.2
- This verb describes putting on an additional layer of clothing over what one already wears, used of Paul's description of longing to be further clothed with the heavenly dwelling over this present body — "we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven" (2 Corinthians 5:2), and of his explanation that believers do not wish to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal is swallowed up by life — "we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life" (2 Corinthians 5:4).
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist middle infinitive ἐπενδύσασθαι; to put on over (A. V. to be clothed upon): 2…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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