ἱμάτιον

ἱμάτιον — himátion

ἱμάτιον, ἱματίου, τό (diminutive of ἱμα equivalent to εἷμα, an article of clothing, garment; and this from ἕννυμι to clothe, cf. German Hemd); (from Herodotus down); the Sept. mostly for בֶּגֶד, also for שִׂמְלָה, שַׂלְמָה, etc.;

1. a garment (of any sort): Mat 9:16; Mat 11:8 (R G L brackets; others omit; cf. Winers Grammar, 591 (550); Buttmann, 82 (72)); Mar 2:21; Mar 15:20; Luk 5:36; Luk 7:25; Heb 1:11; plural garments, i. e. the cloak or mantle and the tunic (cf. Winers Grammar, 176 (166); Buttmann, 24 (23)): Mat 17:2; Mat 24:18 (Rec.);; Joh 19:23; Act 7:58; Jas 5:2, etc.; to rend τά ἱμάτια (see διαρρήγνυμι), Mat 26:65; Act 14:14; Act 22:23.

2. the upper garment, the cloak or mantle (which was thrown over the tunic, ὁ χιτών) (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 22): Mat 9:20; (xxiv. 18 L T Tr WH); Mar 5:2; Luk 8:44; Joh 19:2; Rev 19:16; it is distinguished from the χιτών in Mat 5:40; Luk 6:29; (cf. Joh 19:23); Act 9:39. (Cf. Trench, § l.; BB. DD. under the word; Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, chapter xiii.; especially 'Jesus the Messiah,' 1:620ff) ἱματισμός, ἱματισμοῦ, ὁ (ἱματίζω), clothing, apparel: universally, Luk 7:25; Act 20:33; 1Ti 2:9; of the tunic, Mat 27:35 Rec.; Joh 19:24; of the cloak or mantle, Luk 9:29. (The Sept.; Theophrastus, Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, Athen.) (Cf. Trench, § l.)