554 apekdýomai(from 575 /apó, "away from," which intensifies 1562 /ekdýō "go down and completely away from") – "completely strip off," thoroughly renounce. The double prefixes (apo, ek) strongly emphasize the depth of the renouncing. This "renunciation (stripping right off) is very emphatic" (Nigel Turner, Christian Words, 366).

554 /apekdýomai ("stripping completely off") was "probably coined by Paul meaning, 'I put off' (as a garment), 'from myself, I throw off' " (Souter; note the prefix, apo).

[Josephus does use this term, but the verb and noun forms are not documented before the NT.]

STRONGS NT 554: ἀπεκδύομαι

ἀπεκδύομαι: 1 aorist ἀπεκδυσαμην;

1. wholly to put off from oneself (ἀπό denoting separation from what is put oft): τόν παλαιόν ἄνθρωπον, Colossians 3:9.

2. wholly to strip off for oneself (for one's own advantage), despoil, disarm: τινα, Colossians 2:15. Cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 14f (especially Lightfoot on Colossians 2:15). (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 14, 2 ἀπεκδυς (but Bekker edition has μετεκδυς) τήν.



disarm

Middle voice from apo and ekduo; to divest wholly oneself, or (for oneself) despoil -- put off, spoil.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK ekduo

ἀπειπάμεθα — 1 Occ.
ἀπείραστός — 1 Occ.
ἄπειρος — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδέχεται — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδεχόμενοι — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδεχομένοις — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδεχομένους — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδεχόμεθα — 3 Occ.
ἀπεξεδέχετο — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδυσάμενοι — 1 Occ.
ἀπεκδύσει — 1 Occ.
ἀπήλασεν — 1 Occ.
ἀπελεγμὸν — 1 Occ.
ἀπελεύθερος — 1 Occ.
Ἀπελλῆν — 1 Occ.
ἀπελπίζοντες — 1 Occ.
ἀπέναντι — 5 Occ.
ἀπεράντοις — 1 Occ.
ἀπερισπάστως — 1 Occ.
ἀπερίτμητοι — 1 Occ.