Strong's Concordance 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.] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 554: ἀπεκδύομαιἀπεκδύομαι: 1 aorist ἀπεκδυσαμην; 1. wholly to put off from oneself (ἀπό denoting separation from what is put oft): τόν παλαιόν ἄνθρωπον, Colossians 3:9. 2. wholly to strip off for oneself (for one's own advantage), despoil, disarm: τινα, Colossians 2:15. Cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 14f (especially Lightfoot on Colossians 2:15). (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 14, 2 ἀπεκδυς (but Bekker edition has μετεκδυς) τήν. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance disarmMiddle voice from apo and ekduo; to divest wholly oneself, or (for oneself) despoil -- put off, spoil. see GREEK apo see GREEK ekduo Forms and Transliterations απεκδυσαμενοι απεκδυσάμενοι ἀπεκδυσάμενοι απεκδυσαμενος απεκδυσάμενος ἀπεκδυσάμενος apekdusamenoi apekdusamenos apekdysamenoi apekdysámenoi apekdysamenos apekdysámenosLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 5542 Occurrences ἀπεκδυσάμενοι — 1 Occ. ἀπεκδυσάμενος — 1 Occ. Colossians 2:15 V-APM-NMS GRK: ἀπεκδυσάμενος τὰς ἀρχὰς NAS: When He had disarmed the rulers KJV: [And] having spoiled principalities INT: having disarmed the principalities Colossians 3:9 V-APM-NMP |