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Strong's #5511 - χλαμύς
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- a chalamys, an outer garment usually worn over the tunic
- a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors
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χλᾰμύς
[ῠ], ύδος, ἡ: acc. χλαμύδα, also χλάμυν Sapph. 674: —
short mantle, worn prop. by horsemen, X. An. 7.4.4; borrowed with the πέτασος from Thessaly, Philem. 34, Poll. 10.124; but said to be Macedonian, Arist. Fr. 500, Phylarch. 62J.; worn by ἔφηβοι, Philem. l.c., cf. AP 6.282 (Theod.); μάτηρ σε.. δῶρον ἐς Ἅιδαν ὀκτωκαιδεκέταν ἐστόλισεν χλαμύδι ib. 7.468 (Mel.); χλαμύδεσσ' ἀμφεμμένοι, of ephebi, IGRom. 4.360.35 (Pergam., ii A. D.); ἐκ χλαμύδος, = ἐξ ἐφήβου, Plu. 2.752f, cf. 754f; ἐκ χλαμύδος.. ᾤχετ' ἐς Ἅιδα IG 12(7).447.6 (Amorgos); worn by Hermes, Luc. Tim. 30; also by Eros, Sapph. l.c. (v. Poll. 10.124), Philostr. Im. 1.6, cf. AP 12.78 (Mel.).
2. generally, military cloak, of foot-soldiers, Antiph. 16, Men. 331, Plu. Phil. 11, etc.; of heralds, Ar. Lys. 987.
3. of the general's cloak, Phld. Vit. p.27J., Plu. Per. 35, Lys. 13, etc.; worn by kings, Id. Demetr. 42, etc.; by tragic kings and heroes, Luc. JTr. 41; by Σειληνοί in a procession, Callix. 2: = Lat. paludamentum, D.C. 59.17, 60.17, al., Hdn. 4.7.3, Cod.Theod. 14.10.1.
4. a civilian's mantle, PCair.Zen. 263.2, al. (iii B. C.), PLond. 2.402 ii 16 (ii B. C.), X.Ephesians 1:8 cod., POxy. 1288.24 (iv A. D.). (For its shape cf. Plu. Alex. 26.)
χλαμύς, χλαμύδος, ἡ (according to the testimony of Pollux 10, 38, 164, first used by Sappho), a chlamys, an outer garment usually worn over the χιτών (which see); specifically, the Latinpaludamentum (which see in Rich, Dict. of Antiq., under the word, at the end), a kind of short cloak worn by soldiers, military officers, magistrates, kings, emperors, etc. (2 Macc. 12:35; Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 10; Herodian, Aelian, others; often in Plutarch): Matthew 27:28, 31 (A. V. robe; see Meyer at the passage; Trench, Synonyms, § 1.; Rich (as above) under the word Chlamys; and other references under the word ἱμάτιον).
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* χλαμύς , -ύδος , ἡ ,
[in LXX: 2 Maccabees 12:35 *;]
a chlamys, or short cloak worn over the χιτών (q.v.): Matthew 27:28; Matthew 27:31 (v. Tr., Syn., § 1).†
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