γυμνός
naked
‘naked’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1131 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
γυμνος — transliterated gymnós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “naked.” It first appears in Matthew 25:36. With 15 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (27% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1131 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 4 verses 27%
- Revelation 3 verses 20%
- Mark 2 verses 13%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 47%
- Johannine 4 verses · 27%
- Revelation 3 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 13%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Naked 13×
- American Standard Version: Naked 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Naked 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Naked 8×, I was naked 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1131 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1131 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1131 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1131 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- properly
- metaph.
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; nude (absolutely or relatively literally or figuratively): - naked.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G1131 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γυμνὸς gymnòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 25:36 | 4 |
| γυμνὸν gymnòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 25:38 | 3 |
| γυμνοὶ gymnoì | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 5:3 | 2 |
| γυμνός gymnós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 21:7 | 2 |
| γυμνήν gymnḗn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 17:16 | 1 |
| γυμνοὺς gymnoùs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 19:16 | 1 |
| γυμνοῦ gymnoû | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Mark 14:51 | 1 |
| γυμνὰ gymnà | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 4:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1131, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- γυμναζω gymnázō G1128 to exercise
- γυμνητευω gymnēteúō G1130 to be naked
- γυμνοτης gymnótēs G1132 nakedness
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γυμνος appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 31 verses in 12 books.
- 32
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 31
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:25 γυμνός
- 1 Samuel 19:24 γυμνός
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 γυμνός
- Job 1:21 γυμνός
- Proverbs 23:31 γυμνός
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 γυμνός
- Isaiah 20:2 γυμνός
- Ezekiel 16:7 γυμνός
- Daniel 4:26 γυμνός
- Hosea 2:5 γυμνός
- Amos 2:16 γυμνός
- Micah 1:8 γυμνός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1131) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:25 γυμνός They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:7 γυμνός Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:10 γυμνός The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:11 γυμνός God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 27:16 γυμνός She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
- 1 Samuel 19:24 γυμνός He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 γυμνός The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
- Job 1:21 γυμνός He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
- Job 22:6 γυμνός For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:7 γυμνός They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
- Job 24:10 γυμνός So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
- Job 26:6 γυμνός Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon has no covering.
- Job 31:19 γυμνός If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
- Proverbs 23:31 γυμνός Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly:
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 γυμνός Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- Isaiah 20:2 γυμνός at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 20:3 γυμνός Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
- Isaiah 20:4 γυμνός so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
- Isaiah 32:11 γυμνός Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
- Isaiah 58:7 γυμνός Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
- Ezekiel 16:7 γυμνός I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:22 γυμνός In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.
- Ezekiel 16:39 γυμνός I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 18:7 γυμνός and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 18:16 γυμνός neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 23:29 γυμνός and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
- Daniel 4:26 γυμνός Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Hosea 2:5 γυμνός For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
- Amos 2:16 γυμνός And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day," says Yahweh.
- Amos 4:3 γυμνός You will go out at the breaks in the wall, Everyone straight before her; And you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
- Micah 1:8 γυμνός For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1131) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
