Word Summary
ependytēs: an outer tunic
Original Word: ἐπενδύτηςTransliteration: ependytēs
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-en-doo'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an outer tunic
Meaning: an outer tunic
Strong's Concordance
fisher's coat.
From ependuomai; a wrapper, i.e. Outer garment -- fisher's coat.
see GREEK ependuomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1903: ἐπενδύτηςἐπενδύτης,
ἐπενδυτου,
ὁ (
ἐπενδύνω or
ἐπενδύω, which see (cf.
Winers Grammar, 25; 94 (90))),
an upper garment (
Tertulliansuperindumentum):
John 21:7, where it seems to denote a kind of linen blouse or frock which fishermen used to wear at their work. (
Sophocles fragment 391 Dindorf ((248 Ahrens):
Pollux 7, 45, p. 717); the
Sept. twice (thrice) for
מְעִיל,
1 Samuel 18:4 (
Alex.);
2 Samuel 13:18; (add
Leviticus 8:7 Alex.).)