ἐνδύνω

ἐνδύνω — endýnō

ἐνδύνω (2Ti 3:6) and ἐνδύω (Mar 15:17 R G); 1 aorist ἐνέδυσά; 1 aorist middle ἐνεδυσάμην; perfect participle middle or passive ἐνδεδυμένος; the Sept. for לָבַשׁ; as in the classics,

1. transitive, (properly, to envelop in, to hide in), to put on: τινα τί, a. in a literal sense, to put on, clothe with a garment: Mat 27:31; (with τινα alone, Mat 27:28 L WH marginal reading); Mar 15:17 R G, 20; Luk 15:22. Middle to put on oneself, be clothed with: τί (Buttmann, 191 (166); cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32,5), Mat 6:25; Luk 12:22; (Luk 8:27 T WH Tr text); Mar 6:9; Arts 12:21; ἐνδεδυμένος with the accusative of a thing, Mar 1:6; Mat 22:11 (Buttmann, 148 (129); cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 2); Rev 1:13; Rev 15:6; Rev 19:14; ἐνδυσάμενος (opposed to γυμνός) clothed with a body, 2Co 5:3, on which passage see γέ, 3 c. (Aristotle, de anima 1, 3 at the end, p. 407b, 23 ψυχήν... ἐνδύεσθαι σῶμα).

b. in metaphorical phrases: of armor figuratively so called, ἐνδύεσθαι τά ὅπλα (L marginal reading ἔργα) τοῦ φωτός, Rom 13:12; τήν πανοπλίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, τόν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης, Eph 6:11; Eph 6:14; θώρακα πίστεως, 1Th 5:8 (with double accusative, of object and predicate, θώρακα δικαιοσύνην, Wis 5:19 (18) (cf. Isa 59:17); properly, ὅπλα, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 4, 18; τόν θώρακα, an. 1,8, 3). to be furnished with anything, adorned with a virtue, as if clothed with a garment, ἐνδύεσθαι ἀφθαρσίαν, ἀθανασίαν, 1Co 15:53 f; (σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμοῦ, Col 3:12); δύναμιν, Luk 24:49 (ἰσχύν, Isa 51:9; (Isa 53:1); δύναμιν, εὐπρέπειαν, Psa 92:1; αἰσχύνην, Psalm 34:26; Psalm 131:18; 1Ma 1:29; δικαιοσύνην, Job 29:14; Psalm 131:9; σωτηρίαν, ibid. 16; etc.); δυεῖν ἀλκήν, Homer, Iliad (9, 231); 19, 36; ἑννυσθαι and ἐπιεννυσθαι ἀλκήν, Iliad 20, 381; Odyssey 9, 214 etc.; many similar examples in Hebrew and Arabic, cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus ii., 742; Latininduerenovumingenium, Livy 3, 33); τόν καινόν ἄνθρωπον, i. e. a new purpose and life, Eph 4:24; Col 3:10; Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, to become so possessed of the mind of Christ as in thought, feeling, and action to resemble him and, as it were, reproduce the life he lived, Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27; (similarly the Greeks and Romans said (cf. Winer's Grammar, 30), τόν Ταρκυνιον ἐνδύεσθαι, Dionysius Halicarnassus 11, 5, 5; ῤίψας τόν στρατιώτην ἐνεδυ τόν σοφιστην, Libanius, epistle 968;proditoremethosteminduere, Tacitus, ann. 16, 28; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, iii., p. 143f; Wieseler on Galatians, p. 317ff; (Gataker, Advers. misc. 1, 9, p. 223ff)).

2. intransitive, to creep into, insinuate oneself into; to enter: ἐνδύνοντες εἰς τάς οἰκίας, 2Ti 3:6. (Compare: ἐπενδύω.)