ἔνδυμα
garment
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G1742 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew
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.
“garment” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ενδυμα (éndyma). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Matthew. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 3:4. Related forms include ενδυω, ενδιδυσκω and ενδυσις. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1742 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
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: Raiment 3×, Garment 2×
- American Standard Version: Raiment 2×, Than the raiment 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Clothes 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clothing 4×, Clothes 2×, Than clothing 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1742 across 8 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1742 across 7 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 G1742 across 8 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1742 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- garment, raiment, cloak, an outer garment
Word origin
Derived from ενδυω (endýō) (G1746) — to put on.
From G1746 ; apparel (especially the outer robe ): - clothing garment raiment.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1742 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔνδυμα éndyma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 3:4 | 4 |
| ἐνδύματος endýmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 6:25 | 3 |
| ἐνδύμασιν endýmasin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 7:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1742, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενδυμα appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 7 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 1:24 ἔνδυμα
- 2 Kings 10:22 ἔνδυμα
- Psalms 68:12 ἔνδυμα
- Proverbs 31:22 ἔνδυμα
- Isaiah 63:2 ἔνδυμα
- Lamentations 4:14 ἔνδυμα
- Zephaniah 1:8 ἔνδυμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1742) 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.
- 2 Samuel 1:24 ἔνδυμα You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
- 2 Samuel 20:8 ἔνδυμα When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 2 Kings 10:22 ἔνδυμα He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments.
- Psalms 68:12 ἔνδυμα "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the spoil,
- Proverbs 31:22 ἔνδυμα She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- Isaiah 63:2 ἔνδυμα Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
- Lamentations 4:14 ἔνδυμα They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
- Zephaniah 1:8 ἔνδυμα It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1742) 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.
