ἐκδημέω
ekdēméō · G1553 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be absent, to be away from
To be absent from a place where one rightfully or normally belongs
Examples2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
2 Corinthians 5:9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
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to die
(An idiom, literally: to leave home from the body) Euphemistic expressions for dying
Examples2 Corinthians 5:8 but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: we 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐκfrom+ σῶμαbody 1
- ἀπόfrom+ κύριοςLord 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
- εὐδοκέωto be pleased, to delight in 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To die23.111
- Reflects the extended sense found in the immediate context of 2 Corinthians 5, where being away from the body stands for departing this present life.
- To be absent, to be away from85.21
- Used repeatedly in 2 Corinthians 5:6, 5:8, and 5:9, where Paul contrasts being at home in the body with being away from the Lord, and being away from the body with being at home with the Lord.
Word family 42 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκδήμω; 1 aorist infinitive ἐκδημῆσαι; (ἔκδημος away from home); 1. to go abroad…
1. to go abroad (Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Josephus, others); hence, universally, to emigrate, depart: ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, from the body as the earthly abode of the spirit, 2 Cor 5:8.
2. to be or live abroad: 2 Cor 5:9; ἀπό τοῦ κυρίου, abode with whom is promised us, 2 Cor 5:6; in these examples opposed to ἐνδήμω, which see
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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