Lexical Summary endēmeō: to be in one's own country, to be at home Original Word: ἐνδημέωTransliteration: endēmeō Phonetic Spelling: (en-day-meh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be in one's own country, to be at home Meaning: to be in one's own country, to be at home Strong's Concordance be at home From a compound of en and demos; to be in one's own country, i.e. Home (figuratively) -- be at home (present). see GREEK en see GREEK demos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1736: ἐνδημέωἐνδημέω, ἐνδήμω; 1 aorist infinitive ἐνδημῆσαι; (ἔνδημος one who is among his own people or in his own land, one who does not travel abroad; opposed to ἔκδημος), properly, to be among one's own people, dwell in one's own country, stay at home (opposed to ἐκδημέω, ἀποδημέω; see those words); equivalent to to have a fixed abode, be at home, ἐν τῷ σώματι, of life on earth, 2 Corinthians 5:6, 9; πρός τόν κύριον, of life in heaven, 2 Corinthians 5:8. (Rare in the classics, as Lysias, p. 114, 36.) |
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