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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - γυμνός
γυμνός
G1131
Transliteration: gymnós
Pronunciation: goom-nos'
Definition: naked
- Original: γυμνός - Transliteration: Gumnos - Phonetic: goom-nos'
- Definition:
1. properly
a. unclad, without clothing, the naked body
b. ill clad
c. clad in undergarments only (the outer garments or cloak being laid aside)
d. of the soul, whose garment is the body, stripped of the body, without a body
2. metaph.
a. naked, i.e. open, lay bare
b. only, mere, bare, i.e. mere grain not the plant itself
- Origin: of uncertain affinity - TDNT entry: 13:53,1 - Part(s) of speech: Adjective - Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; nude (absolutely or relatively literally or figuratively): - naked.