noun · feminine
chlamudas
Strong’sG5511
a short cloak
stem chlamud-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* χλαμύς, -ύδος, ἡ
[in LXX: II Mac 12:35 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5511 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhlam-ooce'
a military cloak
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesrobe.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
accusative χλαμύδα, also χλάμυν Refs 7th c.BC+:—short mantle, worn properly by horsemen, Refs 5th c.BC+; borrowed with the πέτασος from Thessaly, Refs 4th c.BC+; but said to be Macedonian, Refs 4th c.BC+; worn by ἔφηβοι, Refs 4th c.BC+; μάτηρ σε.. δῶρον ἐς Ἅιδαν ὀκτωκαιδεκέταν ἐστόλισεν χλαμύδιRefs 1st c.BC+; χλαμύδεσσ᾽ ἀμφεμμένοι, of ephebi, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐκ χλαμύδος, ={ἐξ ἐφήβου}, Refs 1st c.AD+; worn by Hermes, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also by Eros, Refs 7th c.BC+
2 generally, military cloak, of foot-soldiers, Refs 4th c.BC+; of heralds, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of the general's cloak, Refs 1st c.BC+; worn by kings, Refs; by tragic kings and heroes, Refs 2nd c.AD+; by Σειληνοί in a procession, Refs 3rd c.BC+: = Latin paludamentum, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 a civilian's mantle, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chlamudas | chlamudais |
| object accusative | chlamudan2×χλαμύδα | chlamudain |
| direct address vocative | chlamudar | chlamudair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chlamudau | chlamudaiu |
| to, for dative | chlamuda | chlamudai |
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
chlamuda 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chlamudan“robe”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 27:28kai ekduarantois auton chlamudan kokkinan peritithala auto,… stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.
Matthew 27:31… hote empaizala auto, ekduala auton tan chlamudan kai enduala auton teim himatieim autou …… had mocked Him, they removed the robe and put His own clothes back …