ἀπεκδύομαι
apekdýomai · G554 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to undress, to disrobe, stripping off
To take off or strip off clothing
ExamplesColossians 2:15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.
Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices,
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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐξουσίαauthority, power, right 1
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
- ἀρχήbeginning, ruler 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύνwith, together with+ πρᾶξιςdeed, action 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
- ἀποτίθημι apotíthēmi · G659 · to put away, to put out of the way, to remove
- Greek verb used metaphorically for putting off or laying aside (including garments and moral qualities); parallels ἀπεκδύομαι in contexts of removal or divesting, though ἀπεκδύομαι emphasizes complete divestment while ἀποτίθημι is broader
Contrasting words 2 words
- περιβάλλω peribállō · G4016 · to put around, to clothe, to surround
- Greek verb meaning to clothe or put garments on; the direct lexical opposite of stripping off or divesting oneself of clothing
- ἀμφιέννυμι amphiénnymi · G294 · to clothe, to adorn
- Greek verb meaning to clothe or dress; the lexical opposite of removing or stripping off clothing
In the other Testament 1 word
- פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ · H6584 · to cast (one's) skin, to shed (one's) skin, to strip off (skin)
- Hebrew verb meaning to strip off or divest oneself of clothing, the standard translation-equivalent for the sense of complete removal of garments
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To undress, to disrobe, stripping off49.20
- In Colossians 3:9, Paul tells believers not to lie to one another, “since you stripped off (apekdysámenoi) the old self with its evil practices,” using the image of removing a garment to describe leaving behind a former way of life.
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 ἀπεκδυσαμην; 1. wholly to put off from oneself (ἀπό denoting separation from…
1. wholly to put off from oneself (ἀπό denoting separation from what is put oft): τόν παλαιόν ἄνθρωπον, Col 3:9.
2. wholly to strip off for oneself (for one's own advantage), despoil, disarm: τινα, Col 2:15. Cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 14f (especially Lightfoot on Col 2:15). (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 14, 2 ἀπεκδυς (but Bekker edition has μετεκδυς) τήν.
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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