the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Clothe
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to put clothes round" (amphi, "around," hennumi, "to clothe"), "to invest," signifies, in the Middle Voice, to put clothing on oneself, e.g., Matthew 6:30; 11:8; Luke 7:25; 12:28 .
(Eng., "endue"), signifies "to enter into, get into," as into clothes, "to put on," e.g., Mark 1:6; Luke 8:27 (in the best mss.); 24:49 (AV, "endued"); 2 Corinthians 5:3; Revelation 1:13; 19:14 . See ARRAY , ENDUE , PUT ON.
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 Luke 16:19 (of a rich man). Some mss. have it in Luke 8:27 , for No. 2 (of a demoniac). In Mark 15:17 the best texts have this verb (some have No. 2). See WEAR.
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 2 Corinthians 5:2,4 , of the future spiritual body of the redeemed.
means "to put on raiment" (see himation, below), Mark 5:15; Luke 8:35 .
"to cast around or about, to put on, array," or, in the Middle and Passive Voices, "to clothe oneself," e.g., Matthew 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 grid oneself with a thing," in 1 Peter 5:5 , is rendered in the AV, "be clothed with."These files are public domain.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Clothe'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/clothe.html. 1940.
