Apparel (especially the outer robe)
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G1742, éndyma, is a neuter Greek noun for clothing, apparel, or a garment. It names clothing generally and should not automatically be narrowed to a particular outer cloak; neighboring nouns such as G2440 can carry more specific garment distinctions.
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G1742, éndyma, is a neuter Greek noun for clothing, apparel, or a garment. It names clothing generally and should not automatically be narrowed to a particular outer cloak; neighboring nouns such as G2440 can carry more specific garment distinctions.
The BSB source-word alignment has 8 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include clothes (5), a garment (1), clothes [were] (1), clothing (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 3:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (7), Luke (1).
G1742, éndyma, is a neuter Greek noun for clothing, apparel, or a garment. It names clothing generally and should not automatically be narrowed to a particular outer cloak; neighboring nouns such as G2440 can carry more specific garment distinctions. G1742 occurs in Matthew and Luke, with singular and plural forms shaped by each sentence. The wearer, modifier, and scene determine whether the garment is ordinary clothing, distinctive attire, a disguise, wedding attire, or part of a heavenly appearance.
Matthew 3 names John's camel-hair garment within the description of his wilderness life. Matthew 6 treats clothing as a real bodily need that the Father knows, while calling disciples away from anxious mastery. Matthew 7 places sheep's clothing over ravenous wolves, making visible presentation part of a warning about false prophets whose fruit must be tested.
Matthew 22 includes wedding clothing in a kingdom parable that ends in judgment, and Matthew 28 describes the angel's clothing as white as snow at the empty tomb. Each scene gives the noun its significance; the noun does not supply one master symbol for them all. This range shows that clothing can serve the body, contribute to public appearance, conceal danger, or carry meaning inside parable and resurrection narrative.
It does not establish a universal modesty code, prove inward character, make fabric sacred, or promise material luxury. The Father's care in Matthew 6 is no excuse to neglect people without adequate clothing. Sheep's clothing does not make every careful appearance hypocritical. Wedding clothes should not be converted into a speculative doctrine detached from the parable.
Faithful teaching keeps the visible garment subordinate to the person, action, and message the passage places around it.
The New Testament witnesses for G1742 are in Matthew and Luke. The noun moves from ordinary and distinctive clothing to anxiety about bodily provision, deceptive appearance, wedding attire inside a judgment parable, and the angel's white clothing at the empty tomb.
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
John's garment contributes to Matthew's description of his wilderness ministry, but the fabric is not the source of his prophetic authority.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Clothing is a real bodily need within Jesus' teaching against anxious mastery and toward trust in the Father's knowledge and care.
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Clothing marks deceptive outward presentation; the following fruit test, not suspicion based on appearance alone, governs discernment of false prophets.
But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Wedding clothing belongs to the parable's inspection and judgment scene and must be interpreted through the whole parable rather than as ordinary dress etiquette.
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
The angel's white clothing contributes to the resurrection scene's heavenly appearance; it does not establish a reproducible spiritual uniform.
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Greek word. Outer garment of daily wear, often emphasizing visible exterior appearance rather than inner clothing.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
8 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a garment, raiment
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
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Matthew 6:25 gives G1742 a practical center: clothing is a real need, the body is more than clothing, and Jesus addresses anxiety by directing disciples toward the Father's knowledge and kingdom. The verse neither despises material provision nor promises luxury. The rest of Matthew sharpens that balance. John's garment belongs to his visible wilderness life but is not the source of his authority.
Sheep's clothing can conceal ravenous character, so discernment must examine fruit rather than image alone. Wedding clothing belongs to a kingdom parable whose judgment cannot be reduced to dress etiquette, and the angel's white clothing accompanies the resurrection announcement without becoming a uniform believers can reproduce for spiritual rank. Éndyma therefore helps pastors address bodily need, anxious comparison, public appearance, deception, and symbolic clothing while keeping fabric subordinate to persons, actions, and the gospel message.
The church should clothe people in need, refuse appearance-based spiritual ranking, and resist both superstition and shame.
Matt.6.25
G1742 is a neuter noun related to G1746 ἐνδύω. Its attested forms are ἔνδυμα, ἐνδύματος, and ἐνδύμασιν. The noun means clothing or garment generally and does not require outer robe in every context.
Septuagint uses of G1742 commonly correspond to Hebrew garment vocabulary such as לְבוּשׁ. Isaiah's garments of salvation provide a thematic background for later clothing imagery, but G1742 itself does not turn every Gospel garment into a direct Isaiah fulfillment or erase distinctions among Hebrew and Greek clothing words.