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ἐνδύω

to put on

G1746 Strong's Greek
endýō Transliteration
/en-doo'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 28 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb ενδυω centers on the idea of “to put on.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 6:25. Spanning 26 verses in 12 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Related forms include εν, εγγραφω and εγγυος. Dig into 26-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
to put on
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1746 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 →

26
distinct verses
The word appears in 26 distinct verses.
12 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 6:25
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 6:25.
Revelation 19:14
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:14.
#485
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 485 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 26 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 10 · 38%
  • Acts 1 · 4%
  • Pauline Epistles 12 · 46%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 3 · 12%

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 26 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 12 verses · 46%
  • Gospels 10 verses · 38%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 19%
  • Johannine 3 verses · 12%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 12%

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: Put on 4×, Clothed 3×, On 3×
  • American Standard Version: Put on 4×, On 3×, Put 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Put on 3×, Clothe yourselves with 2×, Dressed in 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Put on 7×, Having put on 4×, Has put on 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1746 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Put on” 4×
  • “Clothed” 3×
  • “On” 3×
  • “Have put on” 2×
  • “Put” 2×
  • “Shall have put on” 2×
  • “Ye shall put on” 2×

Plus 13 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1746 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Put on” 4×
  • “On” 3×
  • “Put” 3×
  • “Shall have put on” 2×
  • “Ye shall put on” 2×

Plus 17 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 G1746 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Put on” 3×
  • “Clothe yourselves with” 2×
  • “Dressed in” 2×
  • “Put” 2×
  • “You will wear” 2×

Plus 14 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 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1746 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Put on” 7×
  • “Having put on” 4×
  • “Has put on” 2×
  • “On” 2×
  • “Put” 2×
  • “Wearing” 2×
  • “You might wear” 2×

Plus 11 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 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.

  1. to sink into (clothing), put on, clothe one's self

Word origin

Derived from εν (en) (G1722).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 07:19,2

From G1722 and G1416 (in the senese of sinking into a garment); to invest with clothing (literally or figuratively): - array clothe (with) endue have (put) on.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 15 distinct written forms G1746 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐνδυσάμενοι endysámenoi Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:3 4
ἐνδύσησθε endýsēsthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 6:25 4
ἐνδύσασθαι endýsasthai Verb, Aorist, Middle, Infinitive 1 Corinthians 15:53 3
ἐνέδυσαν enédysan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 27:31 2
ἐνδεδυμένοι endedyménoi Verb, Perfect, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 15:6 2
ἐνδεδυμένον endedyménon Verb, Perfect, Middle, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 22:11 2
ἐνδύσασθε endýsasthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Romans 13:14 2
ἐνδύσηται endýsētai Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 15:54 2
ἐνδεδυμένος endedyménos Verb, Perfect, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 1:6 1
ἐνδυσάμενος endysámenos Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 12:21 1
ἐνδυσώμεθα endysṓmetha Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 13:12 1
ἐνδύσατε endýsate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 15:22 1
ἐνεδύσασθε enedýsasthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Galatians 3:27 1
ἐνεδύσατο enedýsato Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:27 1
Ἐνδύσασθε Endýsasthe Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Colossians 3:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1746, 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

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Derived from this word

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ενδυω appears 90 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 84 verses in 22 books.

90
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
84
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
22 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1746) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 84. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1746) 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.

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