Word

ἀμφιέννυμι

amphiénnymi · G294 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to clothe

To put on clothes, implying the clothing being completely around; see also sense 2

Examples
Matthew 6:30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
Matthew 11:8 “But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ palaces!
Luke 7:25 “But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!
to clothe, to adorn

To put on clothing to adorn the outward form of something

Examples
Matthew 6:30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

How it’s used In 4 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

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
θεόςGod 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

χόρτοςgrass 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin+ ἱμάτιονclothing 1
ἐνin+ μαλακόςsoft 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

οὕτωso, thus, in this way 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 1 word

περιβάλλω peribállō · G4016 · to put around, to clothe, to surround: Both verbs denote putting clothing on someone. περιβάλλω additionally applies beyond garments, to surrounding something generally.

Semantic domains 2 entries

To clothe. See also {D:49.5}49.3: In Matthew 6:30, Jesus reasons, “if God so clothes (amphiénnysin) the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you?” describing the basic act of covering with clothing.
To clothe, to adorn49.5: In Luke 7:25, Jesus asks, “what did you go out to see? ... Those who are splendidly clothed (amphiénnymi) and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!” describing dress that adorns with fine, luxurious clothing rather than merely covering.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀμφότερος amphóteros · G297 · both, all, everyone · 14×ἀμφιέννυμιamphiénnymi · G294ἀμφίβληστρον amphíblēstron · G293 · casting-net · 1×Ἀμφίπολις Amphípolis · G295 · a city surrounded by a river; Amphipolis, a place in Macedonia · 1×ἄμφοδον ámphodon · G296 · city street · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from ἀμφί, literally, to put around); to put on, clothe: in Lk 12:28 L WH ἀμφιάζει for…

(from ἀμφί, literally, to put around); to put on, clothe: in Lk 12:28 L WH ἀμφιάζει for Rec. ἀμφιέννυσι. (A later Greek word; the Sept. (2 Kgs 17:9 Alex.); Job 29:14; (); ; Ps 72:6 Symm.; several times in Themistius; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 112; (Veitch, under the word; Buttmann, 49 (42f); Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word, col. 201 c. quotes from Cram. Anecdot. Ox. vol. ii., p. 338, 31 τό μέν ἀμφιέζω ἐστι κοινῶς, τό δέ ἀμφιάζω Δωρικὸν, ὥσπερ τό ὑποπιέζω καί ὑποπιάζω).) Cf. ἀμφιέζω.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning12 occurrences

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