noun · feminine
apekdusias
Greekἀπέκδυσις (apekdusis)
Strong’sG555
a putting off, casting off
stem apekdusi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† ἀπ-έκ-δυσις, -εως, ἡ
(ἀπεκδύω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G555 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-ek'-doo-sis
divestment
Fromfrom G554;
King Jamesputting off.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apekdusias | apekdusiais |
| object accusative | apekdusian | apekdusiain |
| direct address vocative | apekdusiar | apekdusiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apekdusiau | apekdusiaiu |
| to, for dative | apekdusia1×ἀπεκδύσει | apekdusiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apekdusia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
apekdusia“putting off”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 2:11“putting off”en ho kai peritemniva peritoma acheiropoiēta en ta apekdusia teu sōmeu tau sarxau, en ta peritoma tou Christou,In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.