Strong's Greek: 1927. ἐπιδημέω (epidémeó) -- to be at home

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epidémeó: to be at home

Original Word: ἐπιδημέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epidémeó
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-day-meh'-o)
Short Definition: I sojourn, am resident
Definition: I sojourn, am resident (temporarily, in a foreign city).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from epi and démos
Definition
to be at home
NASB Translation
visiting (1), visitors (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 1927: ἐπιδημέω

ἐπιδημέω, ἐπιδήμω; (ἐπίδημος);

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).

Strong's

dwelling as a stranger.

From a compound of epi and demos; to make oneself at home, i.e. (by extension) to reside (in a foreign country) -- (be) dwelling (which were) there, stranger.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK demos