ekduō (to strip)

Meaning

Usually translated “having stripped”, “took off” and “having put off”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

having stripped 2
they took off 2
having put off 1
to be unclothed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 2
2 Corinthians 2
Mark 1
Luke 1

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 27:31And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Mark 15:20And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
Luke 10:30And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
2 Corinthians 5:3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2 Corinthians 5:4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Greek dictionary

ἐκδύω ekduō · to strip

ἐκ-δύω [in LXX chiefly for פָּשַׁט ;] to take of, strip of, strip: with accusative of person(s) (sc. clothing), Mat.27:28; with accusative of person(s) and of thing(s), Mat.27:31, Mrk.15:20, Luk.10:30; mid., to put off: figuratively, of the body, 2Co.5:4.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “strip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STRIP, verb transitive

[G., to strip to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. Latin ]

To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.
To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.
To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges.

All definitions and other forms of “strip”

To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.
To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.
To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.
To press out the last milk at a milking.
To unrig; as, to strip a ship.
To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.
To cast off. [Not in use.]
To separate from something connected. [Not in use.]

STRIP, noun

[G., a stripe, a streak.]

A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.
Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.