gymnos · naked

What it means

gymnos (γυμνός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “naked”.

Also poorly clothed.

How to say it

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

1. Without clothes, or almost.
2. Exposed, with nothing covering it.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• naked ×13
• bare ×1
• stripped for work ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×2
• John×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 25:36

  naked, and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:38

  And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger and you did not welcome me; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’

• Matthew 25:44

  Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve you?’

• Mark 14:51

  And a certain young man was following him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body; and they seize him;

• Mark 14:52

  but he left the linen cloth and fled naked.

• John 21:7

  So that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer garment around himself, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea.

• Acts 19:16

  And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered both and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

• 1 Corinthians 15:37

  And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

• 2 Corinthians 5:3

  if indeed, having put it on, we will not be found naked.

• Hebrews 4:13

  And there is no creature hidden before him, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

• James 2:15

  If a brother or a sister is naked and lacking daily food,

• Revelation 3:17

  For you say, “I am rich, and I have become wealthy, and I have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are the wretched one and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.

• Revelation 16:15

  (“Look, I am coming like a thief. Happy is the one who keeps watch and keeps his clothes, so that he may not walk around naked and they see his shame.”)

• Revelation 17:16

  And the ten horns that you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire.