γυμνός, γυμνή, γυμνόν, in the Sept. for ςΕιψΙν. and ςΘψεν, naked, not covered; 1. properly, a. unclad, without clothing: Mar_14:52; Rev_3:17; Rev_16:15; Rev_17:16; τό γυμνόν, substantively, the naked body: ἐπί γυμνοῦ, Mar_14:51; cf. Fritzsche at the passage; (τά γυμνά, Lucian, nav. 33). b. ill-clad: Mat_25:36; Mat_25:38; Mat_25:43; Act_19:16 (with torn garments); Jas_2:15; (Job_22:6; Job_24:10; Job_26:6). c. clad in the undergarment only (the outer garment or cloak being laid aside): Joh_21:7; (1Sa_19:24; Isa_20:2; Hesiod, Works, 389; often in Attic; so nudus, Vergil Georg. 1, 299). d. of the soul, whose garment is the body, stripped of the body, without a body: 2Co_5:3 (Plato, Crat c. 20, p. 403 b. ἡ ψυχή γυμνή τοῦ σώματος). 2. metaphorically, a. naked, i. e. open, laid bare: Heb_4:13 (γυμνός ὁ ᾅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, Job_26:6; examples from Greek authors, see in Bleek on Heb. vol. ii. 1, p. 585). b. only, mere, bare, equivalent to ψιλός (like Latinvudus): γυμνός κόκκος, mere grain, not the plant itself, 1Co_15:37 (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 24, 5 [ET] σπέρματα πεσόντα εἰς τήν γῆν ξηρά καί γυμνά διαλύεται).

γυμνός gymnos 15x naked, without clothing, Mar_14:51-52 ; without the upper garment, and clad only with an inner garment or tunic, Joh_21:7 ; poorly or meanly clad, destitute of proper and sufficient clothing, Mat_25:36 ; Mat_25:38 ; Mat_25:43-44 ; Act_19:16 ; Jas_2:15 ; met. unclothed with a body, 2Co_5:3 ; not covered, uncovered, open, manifest, Heb_4:13 ; bare, mere, 1Co_15:37 ; naked of spiritual clothing, Rev_3:17 ; Rev_16:15 ; Rev_17:16 naked; unclothed.

γυμνός , -ή , -όν , [in LXX chiefly for H6174 ;] naked, without clothing , and sometimes (as freq . in cl .) scantily or poorly clad ( Isa_20:2 ff ., Tob_1:16 2Ma_11:12 ): Mat_25:36 ; Mat_25:38 ; Mat_25:43-44 , Mar_14:52 , Joh_21:7 , Act_19:16 , Jas_2:15 Rev_3:17 ; Rev_16:15 ; Rev_17:16 ; as subst ., τὸ γ ., the naked body, Mar_14:51 . Metaph ., of things exposed, Heb_4:13 ; of the soul without a body ( Plat ., Crat., c ., 20, and cf. Deiss ., LAE , 293), 2Co_5:3 ; of seed, bare, 1Co_15:37 ( Cremer , 168).†

γυμνός [page 133] The familiar sense of γυμνός = with only the χιτών comes out well in P Magd 6 .7 (iii/B.C.) ὡς ἤμην γυμνὸς ὑπ᾽ αὐ [τῶν : the complainant had been stripped of his ἱμάτιον . On the other hand, the literal sense of naked is required in P Fay 12 .20 ( c. B.C. 103). Here the complainant reports a similar robbery of a ἱμάτιον , which he ultimately got back from the pawnbroker for 2700 drachmae of copper (= 45 silver dr., say 33 s.). The thieves went off with it ἐ ]ξέντες γυμνόν . He meanwhile got away μετ᾽ ἐνδύματος supplied by his friends (ὑπὸ τῶν γνωρίμων ), which at least implies that he could not have done without the ἔνδυμα . (Note the substitution of this more general word, that used of the Wedding Garment in the parable ( Mat_22:11 f. ), where also it is a ἱμάτιον .) It may be noted that both our citations illustrate Luke s form of the Logion (6 .29 ), in which the assailant snatches the outer garment; the climax in Mat_5:40 gets a little emphasis from the high price which our papyrus shows a ἱμάτιον could fetch. But we are not deterred by Harnack from pleading out of these documents for the originality of Luke, whose version obviously describes a common form of robbery. The Matthaean form may possibly be assimilated to the OT language about taking a man s garment as a pledge. Another instance where γ . may well have its literal force is afforded by the well-known letter of the prodigal son to his mother, BGU III. 846 .9 (ii/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 94) αἴγραψά σοι ὅτι γυμνός εἰμει , I wrote you that I hadn t any clothes. Cf. for the verb P Oxy VI. 903 .7 (iv/A.D.), where a woman accuses her husband of applying fire to her daughters γυμνώσας αὐ [τὰ ]ς παντελῶς , having stripped them quite naked ; and for the compound, P Magd 24 .7 (B.C. 217) ὥστε καὶ ἀπογυμνωθῆναί μου τὸ στῆθος , as the result of a certain woman s ἐπισπασαμένη τῆς ἀ [ναβολῆς τοῦ ἱματίου ] according to Wilcken s restoration ( Archiv vi. p. 274). The verb is used metaphorically in a difficult papyrus letter printed from Mιlanges Chatelain in Preisigke 4317 ( c. A.D. 200) : l. .25 (best taken as beginning a sentence) has γεγύμνωμαι καὶ ὕβρισμαι (-μαι repeated) παρὰ πάντων τῶν συνπολιτῶν . The adj. is MGr, and has the corresponding verb γυμνώνω .

γυμνός "naked, unclad", Od. , etc. "unarmed", Il. , etc.:— τὰ γυμνά "the parts not covered by armour, the exposed parts", Thuc. , Xen. : esp. "the right side" (the left being covered by the shields), Thuc. of things, γυμνὸν τόξον an "uncovered" bow, i. e. taken out of the case, Od. c. gen. "stripped of" a thing, Hdt. , Aesch. in common language γυμνός meant "lightly clad", i. e. "in the tunic only" (χιτών), without the mantle (ἱμάτιον), Lat. nudus, Hes. , Xen. "bare, mere", NTest.

γυμνός, -ή, -όν, [in LXX chiefly for עָרוֹם ;] naked, without clothing, and sometimes (as frequently in cl.) scantily or poorly clad (Isa.20:2ff., Tob.1:16, 2Ma.11:12): Mat.25:36, 38 43, 44, Mrk.14:52, Jhn.21:7, Act.19:16, Jas.2:15, Rev.3:17 16:15, 17:16; as subst., to γ., the naked body, Mrk.14:51. Metaphorical, of things exposed, Heb.4:13; of the soul without a body (Plat., Crat., with, 20, and cf. Deiss., LAE, 293), 2Co.5:3; of seed, bare, 1Co.15:37 (Cremer, 168).† (AS)