Word Summary
amphiennymi: to clothe
Original Word: ἀμφιέννυμιTransliteration: amphiennymi
Phonetic Spelling: (am-fee-en'-noo-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to clothe
Meaning: to clothe
Strong's Concordance
clothe.
From the base of amphoteros and hennumi (to invest); to enrobe -- clothe.
see GREEK amphoteros
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 294: ἀμφιάζωἀμφιάζω; (from
ἀμφί, literally, to put around);
to put on, clothe: in
Luke 12:28 L WH ἀμφιάζει for
Rec. ἀμφιέννυσι. (A later Greek word; the
Sept. (
2 Kings 17:9 Alex.);
Job 29:14; (
); ; Psalm 72:6 Symm.; several times in Themistius; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 112; (Veitch, under the word; Buttmann, 49 (42f); Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word, col. 201 c. quotes from Cram. Anecdot. Ox. vol. ii., p. 338, 31 τό μέν ἀμφιέζω ἐστι κοινῶς, τό δέ ἀμφιάζω Δωρικὸν, ὥσπερ τό ὑποπιέζω καί ὑποπιάζω).) Cf. ἀμφιέζω. STRONGS NT 294: ἀμφιέζωἀμφιέζω, equivalent to ἀμφιέννυμι; in Luke 12:28 ἀμφιέζει T Tr. Cf. ἀμφιάζω.
STRONGS NT 294: ἀμφιέννυμιἀμφιέννυμι; perfect passive ἠμφίεσμαι; (ἕννυμι); (from Homer down); to put on, to clothe: Luke 12:28 (R G; cf. ἀμφιέζω); Matthew 6:30; ἐν τίνι (Buttmann, 191 (166)), Luke 7:25; Matthew 11:8.