STRONGS NUMBER G554


Word Summary
apekdyomai: to strip off from oneself
Original Word: ἀπεκδύομαι
Transliteration: apekdyomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ek-doo'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to strip off from oneself
Meaning: to strip off from oneself
Strong's Concordance
disarm

Middle voice from apo and ekduo; to divest wholly oneself, or (for oneself) despoil -- put off, spoil.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK ekduo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 554: ἀπεκδύομαι

ἀπεκδύομαι: 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.