Himatizo (ἱματίζω) means to clothe, to put clothing on someone, or to be dressed. It appears twice in the New Testament — both in accounts of the Gadarene demoniac after his healing (Mark 5:15; Luke 8:35). When Jesus cast out the demons, those who came saw the formerly wild man 'sitting, clothed [himatizomenon], and in his right mind.'
The two occurrences of himatizo carry enormous theological weight. The Gadarene demoniac — naked, violent, living among the tombs — represents the devastating degradation of a person fully given over to demonic control. When Jesus restores him, the first sign of his transformation is that he is 'clothed and in his right mind.' Clothing and sanity return together — because the deepest healing restores both dignity and rationality. This mirrors the clothing of Adam and Eve by God (Genesis 3:21), the clothing of the prodigal son by the father (Luke 15:22), and the 'white robes' given to the saints in Revelation 7. Salvation is always a reclothing — God covers what sin has stripped away.