ἐπιδημέω
epidēméō · G1927 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to sojourn, to live as a foreigner
To dwell more or less permanently in a place which is not one’s own country; (compare related meanings in υἱός (huiós, G5207), sense 12.)
ExamplesActs 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 17:21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
How it’s used In 2 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 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀκούωto hear 1
- εὐκαιρέωto have an appropriate time for 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- παροικέω paroikéō · G3939 · to dwell temporarily, to be a foreigner, to sojourn
- The target term and παροικέω (“to dwell near, to reside as a foreigner”) share the core sense of residing as a foreigner or sojourner, differing perhaps in nuances of permanence versus transience within that shared concept of foreign residence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To sojourn, to live as a foreigner. (Compare related meanings in {D:11.77}.)85.78
- This verb describes residing temporarily in a place away from one's homeland, used of Luke's list of the nations represented at Pentecost including visitors from Rome present in Jerusalem — "visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes" (Acts 2:10), and of the Athenians and foreign visitors who spent their time discussing new ideas — "the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new" (Acts 17:21).
Word family 42 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπιδήμω; (ἐπίδημος); 1. to be present among one's people, in one's city or in one's…
1. to be present among one's people, in one's city or in one's native loud (cf. ἐπί D. 1) (Thucydides, Plato, others; opposed to ἀποδήμειν, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 69; ἐπιδήμειν ἐν τῷ δέ τῷ βίῳ, Theophilus ad Autol. 2, 12 (p. 88, Otto edition)).
2. to be a sojourner, a foreign resident, among any people, in any country: Acts 2:10; οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι, Acts 17:21; (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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