The Greek ekduō means to strip off clothing — to undress someone or remove what covers them. The word appears in the crucifixion accounts where soldiers strip Jesus of His garments before the crucifixion (Matthew 27:28, 31; Mark 15:20). Paul uses the concept in 2 Corinthians 5:4 — the believer does not want to be 'unclothed' (ekdusasthai) at death but to put on the resurrection body over the mortal.
The stripping of Jesus' garments at Golgotha fulfills Psalm 22:18 ('They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment'). The soldiers who stripped Him intended humiliation; God intended the fulfillment of prophecy. The body that was stripped and exposed in death would be clothed in resurrection glory. Paul's meditation on ekduō in 2 Corinthians 5 shows the believer's hope: not naked death but resurrection-clothed transformation — the mortal swallowed up by life.