Lexicon
apekduomai: to strip off from oneself
Original Word: ἀπεκδύομαιPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apekduomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ek-doo'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I strip, divest, renounce
Definition: I strip, divest, renounce.
HELPS word-Studies
554 apekdýomai(from 575 /apó, "away from," which intensifies 1562 /ekdýō "go down and completely away from") – "completely strip off," thoroughly renounce. The double prefixes (apo, ek) strongly emphasize the depth of the renouncing. This "renunciation (stripping right off) is very emphatic" (Nigel Turner, Christian Words, 366).
554 /apekdýomai ("stripping completely off") was "probably coined by Paul meaning, 'I put off' (as a garment), 'from myself, I throw off' " (Souter; note the prefix, apo).
[Josephus does use this term, but the verb and noun forms are not documented before the NT.]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
apo and
ekduóDefinitionto strip off from oneself
NASB Translationdisarmed (1), laid aside (1).