ἐκδύω
ekdyō · strip
Greek word · Strong’s number G1562 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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ekdyō (ἐκδύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “strip”.
Take off clothing, strip.
How to say it
ek·dy·ō
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Leave without clothes.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- they stripped ×3
- be unclothed ×1
- stripped ×1
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Where it appears
- Matthew 27:28
And they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak around him.
- Matthew 27:31
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him away to crucify him.
- Mark 15:20
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple and put his own clothes on him. And they lead him out to crucify him.
- Luke 10:30
And Jesus replied and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among bandits, who also stripped him and laid blows on him and went away, leaving him half dead.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4
For indeed we who are in the tent groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to put on the other over it, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.