Lexicon gumnos: naked, poorly clothed Original Word: γυμνός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: gumnos Phonetic Spelling: (goom-nos') Short Definition: wearing only the under-garment, bare Definition: rarely: stark-naked; generally: wearing only the under-garment; bare, open, manifest; mere. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionnaked, poorly clothed NASB Translationbare (1), naked (11), open (1), stripped (1), without clothing (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1131: γυμνόςγυμνός, γυμνή, γυμνόν, in the Sept. for עֵירֹם. and עָרום, naked, not covered; 1. properly, a. unclad, without clothing: Mark 14:52; Revelation 3:17; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 17:16; τό γυμνόν, substantively, the naked body: ἐπί γυμνοῦ, Mark 14:51; cf. Fritzsche at the passage; (τά γυμνά, Lucian, nav. 33). b. ill-clad: Matthew 25:36, 38, 43; Acts 19:16 (with torn garments); James 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): John 21:7; (1 Samuel 19:24; Isaiah 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: 2 Corinthians 5:3 (Plato, Crat c. 20, p. 403 b. ἡ ψυχή γυμνή τοῦ σώματος). 2. metaphorically, a. naked, i. e. open, laid bare: Hebrews 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, 1 Corinthians 15:37 (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 24, 5 [ET] σπέρματα πεσόντα εἰς τήν γῆν ξηρά καί γυμνά διαλύεται).
Strong's naked. Of uncertain affinity; nude (absolute or relative, literal or figurative) -- naked. |
