◄ 5511. chlamus ►
Strong's Concordance chlamus: a chlamys or short cloak Original Word: χλαμύς, ύδος, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: chlamus Phonetic Spelling: (khlam-ooce') Short Definition: a short cloak Definition: a short cloak, worn by military officers and soldiers. HELPS Word-studies 5511 xlamýs – "a short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors, etc" (J. Thayer) – the Latin paludamenum, the garment of "dignity" (office) worn over the 5509 (xitōn/"tunic"). 5511 /xlamýs ("a short, official robe") was put on Christ (perhaps taken from a Roman officer) to heighten His humiliation. [For other terms referring to clothes worn in the NT see Strong's numbers: 1742, 1903, 2067, 2440, 2441, 2689, 4018,4158, 4629, 4749, 5341. "5511 (xlamýs) was a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors (2 Macc 12:35; Josephus, Ant. 5.1.10), a soldier's sagum or scarf. Carr (Cambridge Greek Testament) suggests that it may have been a worn-out scarf of Pilate's" (WP, 1, 229).] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5511: χλαμύς χλαμύς, χλαμύδος, ἡ (according to the testimony of Pollux 10, 38, 164, first used by Sappho), a chlamys, an outer garment usually worn over the χιτών (which see); specifically, the Latinpaludamentum (which see in Rich, Dict. of Antiq., under the word, at the end), a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors, etc. (2 Macc. 12:35; Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 10; Herodian, Aelian, others; often in Plutarch): Matthew 27:28, 31 (A. V. robe; see Meyer at the passage; Trench, Synonyms, § 1.; Rich (as above) under the word Chlamys; and other references under the word ἱμάτιον). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance robe. Of uncertain derivation; a military cloak -- robe. Forms and Transliterations χλαμυδα χλαμύδα chlamuda chlamyda chlamýda Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 5511 2 Occurrences χλαμύδα — 2 Occ. Matthew 27:28 N-AFS GRK: ἐκδύσαντες αὐτὸν χλαμύδα κοκκίνην περιέθηκαν NAS: Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. KJV: him a scarlet robe. INT: having stripped him a robe scarlet they put around Matthew 27:31 N-AFS GRK: αὐτὸν τὴν χλαμύδα καὶ ἐνέδυσαν NAS: Him, they took the [scarlet] robe off KJV: him, they took the robe off from him, INT: him the robe and they put on 2 Occurrences