Quick Definition
γυμνός, ή, όν Adj wearing only the under-garment, bare
Strong's Definition
nude (absolute or relative, literal or figurative)
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
KJV Usage: naked
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ή, -όν | γυμνάζω
49.22 · Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning
naked pertaining to wearing no clothing or being very scantily clothed
MAT 25:36 · MAT 25:38 · MAT 25:43 · MAT 25:44 · MRK 14:51 · MRK 14:52 · JHN 21:7 · ACT 19:16 · 1CO 15:37 · 2CO 5:3 · JAS 2:15 · REV 3:17 · REV 16:15 · REV 17:16
28.62 · Know · Able To Be Known
not hidden, easily known, naked (a figurative extension of meaning of γυμνός[a] ‘naked,’ 49.22) easily able to be known in view of the fact that nothing is hidden It is rare that one can employ in translating γυμνός b a term which literally means ‘naked,’ but it is possible to retain something of the metaphorical value by using a phrase such as ‘with nothing to cover’ or ‘with nothing which can be used to hide.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
γυμνός, -7, -dv, in Sept. for DVy and DI}, naked, not covered ; 1. prop. a. unclad, without clothing: Mk. xiv. 52; Rev. iii. 17; xvi. 15; xvii. 16; τὸ γυμνόν, substantively, the naked body: ἐπὶ γυμνοῦ, Mk. xiv. 51; cf. Fritzsche ad loc.; (τὰ γυμνά, Leian. nay. 38). b. illclad: Mt. xxv. 36, 38, 43 sq.; Acts xix. 16 (with torn garments) ; Jas. ii. 15; (Job xxii. 6; xxiv. 10; xxvi. 6). ce. clad in the undergarment only (the outer garment or cloak being laid aside): Jn. xxi. 7; (1S. xix. 24; Is. xx. 2; Hes. opp. 389; often in Attic; so nudus, Verg. Georg. 15/299). d. of the soul, whose garment is the body, stript of the body, without a body: 2 Co. v. 3, (Plat. Crat. c. 20 p. 403 Ὁ. ἡ ψυχὴ γυμνὴ τοῦ σώματος). 2. metaph. a. naked, i. e. open, laid bare: Heb. iv. 13, (γυμνὸς ὁ ἅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, Job xxvi. 6; exx. fr. Grk. auth. see in Bleek on Heb. vol. ii. 1 p. 585). b. only, mere, bare, i. q. ψιλός (like Lat. nudus) : γυμνὸς κόκκος, mere grain, not the plant itself, 1 Co. xv. 37, (Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 24, 5 σπέρματα πεσόντα εἰς THY γῆν ξηρὰ καὶ γυμνὰ διαλύεται)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
γυμνός gymnos 15x
naked, without clothing, Mk. 14:51, 52; without the upper garment, and clad only with an inner garment or tunic, Jn. 21:7; poorly or meanly clad, destitute of proper and sufficient clothing, Mt. 25:36, 38, 43, 44; Acts 19:16; Jas. 2:15; met. unclothed with a body, 2 Cor. 5:3; not covered, uncovered, open, manifest, Heb. 4:13; bare, mere, 1 Cor. 15:37; naked of spiritual clothing, Rev. 3:17; 16:15; 17:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
γυμνός, -ή, -όν,
[in LXX chiefly for עָרוֹם ;]
naked, without clothing, and sometimes (as freq. in cl.) scantily or poorly clad (Is 20:2ff., To 1:16, II Mac 11:12): Mt 25:36, 38 43, 44, Mk 14:52, Jo 21:7, Ac 19:16, Ja 2:15, Re 3:17 16:15, 17:16; as subst., to γ., the naked body, Mk 14:51. Metaph., of things exposed, He 4:13; of the soul without a body (Plat., Crat., c., 20, and cf. Deiss., LAE, 293), II Co 5:3; of seed, bare, I Co 15:37 (Cremer, 168).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
γυμνός. The familiar sense of γυμνός = comes out well in P Magd 67 (iii/B.c.) ὡς ἤμην γυμνὸς ὑπ᾽ αὐ[τῶν : the complainant had been stripped of his ἱμάτιον. ‘‘with only the χιτών "ἢ On the other hand, the literal sense of ‘‘ naked” is required in P Fay 127° (c. B.c. 103). Here the complainant reports a similar robbery of a ἱμάτιον, which he ultimately got back from the pawnbroker for 2700 drachmae of copper (= 45 silver dr., say 33s.). The thieves went off with it e]&évres γυμνόν. He meanwhile got away μετ᾽ ἐνδύματος supplied by his friends (ὑπὸ τῶν γνωρίμων), which at least implies that he could not have done without the ἔνδυμα. (Note the substitution of this more general word, that used of the Wedding Garment in the parable (Mt 22!), where also it is a ἱμάτιον.) It may be noted that both our citations illustrate Luke’s form of the Logion (655), in which the assailant snatches the outer garment ; the climax in Mt 5° gets a little emphasis from the high price which our papyrus shows a ἱμάτιον could fetch. But we are not deterred by Harnack from pleading out of these documents for the originality of Luke, whose version obviously describes a common form of robbery. The Matthaean form may possibly be assimilated to the OT language about taking a man’s garment as a pledge. Another instance where y. may well have its literal force is afforded by the well-known letter of the prodigal son to his mother, BGU III. 846° (ii/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 94) αἴγραψά σοι ὅτι γυμνός εἰμει, ‘1 wrote you that I hadn’t any clothes.” Cf. for the verb P Oxy VI. 9037 (iv/A.p.), where a woman accuses her husband of applying fire to her daughters—yupvacas αὐ[τὰ]ς παντελῶς, ‘‘having stripped them quite naked” ; and for the compound, P Magd 247 (B.c. 217) ὥστε καὶ ἀπογυμνωθῆναί pov τὸ στῆθος, as the result of a certain woman’s ἐπισπασαμένη τῆς ἀ[ναβολῆς τοῦ ἱματίου] according to Wilcken’s restoration (A7chzv vi. p. 274). The verb is used metaphorically in a difficult papyrus letter printed from Mélanges Chatelain in Preisigke 4317 (c. A.D. 200): 1. 35. (best taken as beginning a sentence) has γεγύμνωμαι καὶ ὕβρισμαι (-μαι repeated) παρὰ πάντων τῶν συνπολιτῶν. The adj. is MGr, and has the corresponding verb γυμνώνω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
γυμνός (gumnos) — naked. γυμνός, ή, όν, naked, unclad, γ. περ ἐών [Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative, Ἴρου γυμνότερος [Refs 5th c.AD+]; γυμνὸν στάδιον, opposed to ὁπλιτοδρόμος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. unarmed, οὐδ᾽ ὑπέμεινε Πάτροκλον, γυμνόν περ ἐόντ᾽ ἐν δηϊοτῆτι [Refs 8th c.BC+]parts not covered by armour, exposed parts, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially right side (the left being covered by the shields), [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. of things bare, γ. τόξον an uncoveredbow,i.e. taken out of the case, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
4. c.genitive, stripped of a thing, κολεοῦ γ. φάσγανον [Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative ἀνδριάντων -ότερος [Refs 1st c.AD+]
5. lightly clad, i.e. in the undergarment only, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of horses, without harness, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
6. of facts, naked, bald, γυμνῶν τῶν πραγμάτων θεωρουμένων [Refs 4th c.BC+] adverb -ῶς baldly, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
7. destitute, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
8. bare, mere, κόκκος [NT]
9. beardless, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
10. scalped, [Refs 7th c.BC+]
11. γυμνή· ἄνηβος, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
12. proverbial of impossibilities, γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττεις [Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Akin to Sanskrit nagnás, Latin nādus, etc.; compare λυγνός.)