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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g294 Greek: amphiennumi

Clothe:

"to put clothes round" (amphi, "around," hennumi, "to clothe"), "to invest," signifies, in the Middle Voice, to put clothing on oneself, e.g., Mat 6:30; 11:8; Luk 7:25; 12:28.

2 Strong's Number: g1746 Greek: enduo

Clothe:

(Eng., "endue"), signifies "to enter into, get into," as into clothes, "to put on," e.g., Mar 1:6; Luk 8:27 (in the best mss.); 24:49 (AV, "endued"); 2Cr 5:3; Rev 1:13; 19:14.
See ARRAY, ENDUE, PUT ON.

3 Strong's Number: g1737 Greek: endidusko

Clothe:

has the same meaning as No. 2; the termination, --sko suggests the beginning or progress of the action. The verb is used in the Middle Voice in Luk 16:19 (of a rich man). Some mss. have it in Luk 8:27, for No. 2 (of a demoniac). In Mar 15:17 the best texts have this verb (some have No. 2).
See WEAR.

4 Strong's Number: g1902 Greek: ependuo

Clothe:

a strengthened form of No. 2, used in the Middle Voice, "to cause to be put on over, to be clothed upon," is found in 2Cr 5:2, 4, of the future spiritual body of the redeemed.

5 Strong's Number: g2439 Greek: himatizo

Clothe:

means "to put on raiment" (see himation, below), Mar 5:15; Luk 8:35.

6 Strong's Number: g4016 Greek: periballo

Clothe:

"to cast around or about, to put on, array," or, in the Middle and Passive Voices, "to clothe oneself," e.g., Mat 25:36, 38, 43, is most frequent in the Apocalypse, where it is found some 12 times (see peribolaion, below).
See CAST, No. 10, PUT, No. 9).

Note: The verb enkomboomai, "to gird oneself with a thing," in 1Pe 5:5, is rendered in the AV, "be clothed with."

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