γυμνός gumnos

Greek word for “naked” · Strong’s G1131 · used 15 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

γυμνός, -ή, -όν; naked, without clothing, and sometimes (as frequently in cl.) scantily or poorly clad (Isa.20:2ff.): 43, 44, 16:15, 17:16;

How it is translated

Glosses given for gumnos in context, with how often each is used:

• naked 11
• his naked body 1
• bare 1
• uncovered 1
• without clothes 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 25 (4), Mark 14 (2), John 21 (1), Acts 19 (1), 1 Corinthians 15 (1), 2 Corinthians 5 (1), Hebrews 4 (1), James 2 (1), Revelation 3 (1), Revelation 16 (1)

Forms

• γυμνὸς 4
• γυμνὸν 3
• γυμνός 2
• γυμνοὶ 2
• γυμνοῦ 1
• γυμνοὺς 1
• γυμνὰ 1
• γυμνὴν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gumnos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• περιβάλλω periballō “to clothe” 4
• ξένος xenos “foreign” 3
• φυλακή phulakē “prison/watch” 3
• σινδών sindōn “linen” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 4
• ἐπισκέπτομαι episkeptomai “to visit/care for” 2
• πότε pote “when?” 2
• ἀσθενής asthenēs “weak” 2
• συνάγω sunagō “to assemble” 2
• εἴδω eidō “to perceive” 3
• ἐκεῖνος ekeinos “that” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using gumnos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 25:36 — Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
• Matthew 25:43 — I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
• Matthew 25:44 — Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister…
• Mark 14:52 — And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
• John 21:7 — Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him,…
• Acts 19:16 — And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
• 2 Corinthians 5:3 — If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
• Hebrews 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• James 2:15 — If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
• Revelation 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,…
• Revelation 16:15 — Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
• Revelation 17:16 — And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.