Quick Definition
ἐκδύω v. I put off, take off, strip off
Strong's Definition
from 1537 and the base of 1416; to cause to sink out of, i.e. (specially as of clothing) to divest
KJV Usage: strip, take off from, unclothe
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-δύω: 1 aor. ἐξέδυσα; 1 aor. mid. ἐξεδυσάμην ; (δύων ; to take off: twa, to strip one of his garments, Mt. xxvii. 28 [ΤΠ WH mrg. evdvc.]; Lk. x. 30; τινά τι (as in Grk. fr. Hom. down), [a thing from a person]: Mt. xxvii. 31; Mk. xy. 20; Mid. to take off from one’s self, to put off one’s raiment, (Xen. Ag. 1, 28; Hell. 3, 4,19); fig. to put off the body, the clothing of the soul, [A. V. be unclothed]: 2 Co. ν. 4; the reading ἐκδυσάμενοι, adopted in vs. 3 by certain crities [e. g. Mill, Tdf. 7, Reiche, al.], is due to a correction by the copyists; see γυμνός, 1 ἃ. [Comp.: ἀπ-εκδύομαι.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκδύω ekdyō 6x
pr. to go out from; to take off, strip, unclothe, Mt. 27:28, 31; mid. to lay aside, to put off, Mk. 15:20; Lk. 10:30; 2 Cor. 5:3f.*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-δύω
[in LXX chiefly for פָּשַׁט ;]
to take of, strip of, strip: c. acc pers. (sc. clothing), Mt 27:28; c. acc pers. et rei, Mt 27:31, Mk 15:20, Lk 10:30; mid., to put off: fig., of the body, II Co 5:4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκδύω is frequent in the sense of ‘‘strip one of his garments,” as Mt 2778, Lk τοῦθ, e.g. P Lille I. 68 (iii/B.c.) ἐξέδυσαν Χιτῶνα, Ρ Magd 613 (Β.Ο. 221) τά τε πρόβα]τα βεβοσκηκότας κἀμὲ ὑβρικότες καὶ ἐγδεδυκότες, P Fay 1218 ((. Buc. 103) ἐξέδυσαν ὃ περ[ιε]βεβλήμην ἱμάτιον, BGU LV. τοῦτ (B.C. 14) ἐξέδυσαν (sc. ἔμπορον) καὶ περιείλοντο αὐτοῦ πόκους ἐρίων, and from the inscrr. Sy// 80347 (iii/B.c.) ἐδ[όκ]ει αὐτόν viv ὁ θε[δ]ς ἐγδύσας kal γυμνὸν καταστάσας ὀρθὸν κτλ. In the new fragment of a lost Gospel, P Oxy IV. 655%*, in answer to the disciples’ question πότε σε ὀψόμεθα ; the Lord is described as replying—brav ἐκδύσησθε καὶ μὴ aloxuvOqre. . . . ᾿Εἰκδύω is an ex. of a verb which, though perfective already, forms a further perfective ἀπεκδύομαι which, like ἀπέκδυσις (see s.v.), connotes complete stripping of oneself or another in one’s own interest (Col 211,18, 39) : see Moulton G7. ii. § 119 (2). MGr γδύνω, ““doff,” ‘* pillage.” |) gtcem EXEL. P Eleph 115 (B.c. 311-10) (= Selections, p. 4) ὡς ἐκεῖ τοῦ συναλλάγματος γεγενημένου, ‘on the ground that the agreement had been come to there,” P Fay 110!3 (a.p. 94) ἵ[ν]α τὰ πρόβατα ἐκεῖ κοιμηθῆι, 70. 118% (A.D. 110) ἔχ᾽ ext [ws] ποτίσῃς τὼ ἐπτάρουρον τοῦ ἐλαιῶνος, “᾿Ξἴαν there till you have watered the seven-acre at the olive-yard,’’ P Ryl II. 239° (mid. iii/A.D.) ἐπίμινον τοῖς ἐκεῖ, ‘stay on for the men there.’’ Inthe boy’s letter P Oxy I. 119}? (ii/iii
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐκδύω (ekduō) — to strip. ἐκδύω (ἐκδύνω [Refs 5th c.BC+]:
I. causal in present ἐκδύω: imperfect ἐξέδυον· future ἐκδύσω: aorist 1 ἐξέδῡσα: late perfect ἐκδέδῠκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— take off, strip off, with double accusative person et of things, ἐκ μέν με χλαῖναν ἔδυσαν they stripped me of my cloak, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with accusative only, strip, πάντας ἐ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
I.2. passive, ἐκδύομαι, aorist 1 ἐξεδύθην [ῠ]: perfect ἐκδέδῠμαι:—to be stripped of a thing, τὸν χιτωνίσκον ἐκδεδύσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, to be stripped, ἐκδυθῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.3. middle, ἐκδύομαι, Cretan dialect ἐσδ- [Refs]future -δύσομαι: aorist 1 ἐξεδυσάμην:—strip oneself of a thing, put off, τεύχεά τ᾽ ἐξεδύοντο they were putting off their armour, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκδύσασθαι (to be read -δύσεσθαι) τὸν κιθῶνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, put off one's clothes, strip, θᾶττον ἐκδυώμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; technically, of ephebi, [NT+3rd c.BC+]
II. active in middle sense, put off, μαλακὸν δ᾽ ἔκδυνε χιτῶνα [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, of the clothes, to be put off, ἅμα κιθῶνι ἐκδυομένῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. aorist 2 ἐξέδυν: perfect ἐκδέδῡκα:—go or get out of, with genitive, ἐκδὺς μεγάροιο [Refs 8th c.BC+]emerging from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2. perfect and aorist 2 with accusative, escape, shun, νῶϊν δ᾽ ἐκδῦμεν ὄλεθρον [grant] us to escape.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]
III.3. absolutely, escape, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; escape one's memory, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
