γυμνός

γυμνός — gymnós

γυμνός, γυμνή, γυμνόν, in the Sept. for עֵירֹם. and עָרום, naked, not covered;

1. properly,

a. unclad, without clothing: Mar 14:52; Rev 3:17; Rev 16:15; Rev 17:16; τό γυμνόν, substantively, the naked body: ἐπί γυμνοῦ, Mar 14:51; cf. Fritzsche at the passage; (τά γυμνά, Lucian, nav. 33).

b. ill-clad: Mat 25:36; Mat 25:38; Mat 25:43; Act 19:16 (with torn garments); Jas 2:15; (Job 22:6; Job 24:10; Job 26:6).

c. clad in the undergarment only (the outer garment or cloak being laid aside): Joh 21:7; (1Sa 19:24; Isa 20:2; Hesiod, Works, 389; often in Attic; so nudus, Vergil Georg. 1, 299).

d. of the soul, whose garment is the body, stripped of the body, without a body: 2Co 5:3 (Plato, Crat c. 20, p. 403 b. ἡ ψυχή γυμνή τοῦ σώματος).

2. metaphorically,

a. naked, i. e. open, laid bare: Heb 4:13 (γυμνός ὁ ᾅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, Job 26:6; examples from Greek authors, see in Bleek on Heb. vol. ii. 1, p. 585).

b. only, mere, bare, equivalent to ψιλός (like Latinvudus): γυμνός κόκκος, mere grain, not the plant itself, 1Co 15:37 (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 24, 5 [ET] σπέρματα πεσόντα εἰς τήν γῆν ξηρά καί γυμνά διαλύεται).