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Strong's G1131 γυμνός (gymnos)

Gymnos means “naked” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1131 — binnuy (“Binnui”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1131
Language Greek
Linked Usages 47
Books 22

Strong's G1131 Quick Answer

Strong's G1131 γυμνός (gumnos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. gumnos (goom-nos') adj. 1. nude {absolute or relative, literal or figurative} It has 47 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include naked. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
gumnos (goom-nos') adj. 1. nude {absolute or relative, literal or figurative}
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
naked

Meaning and Definition

gumnos (goom-nos') adj. 1. nude {absolute or relative, literal or figurative} [of uncertain affinity] KJV: naked

Original Word
γυμνός
Transliteration
gumnos
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1131. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

naked

Usage: γυμνός, -ή, -όν, [in LXX chiefly for עָרוֹם ;] naked, without clothing, and sometimes (as frequently in cl.) scantily or poorly clad (Isa.20:2ff., Tob.1:16, 2Ma.11:12): Mat.25:36, 38 43, 44, Mrk.14:52, Jhn.21:7, Act.19:16, Jas.2:15, Rev.3:17 16:15, 17:16; as subst., to γ., the naked body, Mrk.14:51. Metaphorical, of things exposed, Heb.4:13; of the soul without a body (Plat., Crat., with, 20, and cf. Deiss., LAE, 293), 2Co.5:3; of seed, bare, 1Co.15:37 (Cremer, 168).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1131 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gumnos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Naked Matthew 25:36 14×

How Strong's G1131 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 30 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1131 (γυμνός) appears 33 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1131 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1131 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 25:36 KJV

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Matthew 25:38 KJV

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

Matthew 25:43 KJV

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Strong's G1131 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 2:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

Genesis 3:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

Strong's G1131 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 1:17 Septuagint / Brenton

and my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation dead, or cast about the walls of Nineveh, I buried him.

2 Maccabees 11:12 Septuagint / Brenton

Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and so escaped.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1131.

Genesis 2:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.
Genesis 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?
Genesis 27:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.
1 Kingdoms 19:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took off his clothes, and prophesied before them; and lay down naked all that day and all that night: therefore they said, Is Saul also among the prophets?
2 Chronicles 28:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men who were called by name rose up, and took hold of the prisoners, and clothed all the naked from the spoils, and gave them garments and shoes, and gave them food to eat, and oil to anoint themselves with, and they helped also everyone that was weak with asses, and placed them in Jericho, the city of palm trees, with their brethren; and they returned to Samaria.
Job 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return thither: The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, And hast taken away the clothing of the naked.
Job 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, And they have taken away the covering of their body.
Job 24:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, And taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Job 26:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hell is naked before him, And destruction has no covering.
Job 31:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
Proverbs 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, Thou shalt afterward go more naked than a pestle.
Ecclesiastes 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, He shall return back as he came, And he shall receive nothing for his labor, That it should go with him in his hand.
Isaiah 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the Lord spoke to Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off thy loins, and loose thy sandals from off thy feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;
Isaiah 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.
Isaiah 32:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be amazed, be pained, ye confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;
Isaiah 58:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.
Ezekiel 16:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thy high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;
Ezekiel 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
Ezekiel 23:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labors and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication
Hosea 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.
Amos 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.
Amos 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Rimmon, saith the Lord.
Micah 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
Matthew 25:36 New Testament, KJV
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew 25:38 New Testament, KJV
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Matthew 25:43 New Testament, KJV
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew 25:44 New Testament, KJV
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mark 14:51 New Testament, KJV
And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mark 14:52 New Testament, KJV
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
John 21:7 New Testament, KJV
Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
Acts 19:16 New Testament, KJV
And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
1 Corinthians 15:37 New Testament, KJV
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
2 Corinthians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Hebrews 4:13 New Testament, KJV
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
James 2:15 New Testament, KJV
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Revelation 3:17 New Testament, KJV
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Revelation 16:15 New Testament, KJV
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Revelation 17:16 New Testament, KJV
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Tobit 1:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation dead, or cast about the walls of Nineveh, I buried him.
2 Maccabees 11:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and so escaped.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1131, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 4 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1131 FAQ

What does gymnos (γυμνός) mean?

Gymnos (Strong's G1131) is a Greek word most simply glossed "naked". gumnos (goom-nos') adj. 1. nude {absolute or relative, literal or figurative}

How many times is gymnos (γυμνός) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's G1131 across 22 books.

Where can I study gymnos (γυμνός) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1131 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate gymnos (γυμνός)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as naked. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1131 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1131, with linked reader references where each row is available.