Lexical Summary katastolē: a garment Original Word: καταστολήTransliteration: katastolē Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as-tol-ay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a garment Meaning: a garment Strong's Concordance apparel. From katastello; a deposit, i.e. (specially) costume -- apparel. see GREEK katastello Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2689: καταστολήκαταστολή, καταστολης, ἡ (καταστέλλω, which see); 1. properly, a lowering, letting down; hence, 2. in Biblical Greek twice, a garment let down, dress, attire: 1 Timothy 2:9, Vulg.habitus, which the translator, according to later Latin usage, seems to understand of clothing (cf. the Frenchl'habit); (cf. Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 4); for מַעֲטֶה, Isaiah 61:3, with which in mind Hesychius says καταστολήν. περιβολήν (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23, but especially Ellicott on 1 Timothy, the passage cited). |