Strong's Lexicon
G1927 — ἐπιδημέω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1927 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἐπιδημέω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from a compound of G1909 and G1218 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 2 |
| Transliteration: | epidemeo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | ep-ee-day-meh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to make oneself at home 2. (by extension) to reside (in a foreign country) |
| KJV Renderings: | (be) dwelling (which were) there, stranger |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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: Act 2:10; οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι, Act 17:21; (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἐπιδημέω ((be) dwelling (which were) there)
Acts 2:10
- KJV: Phrygia and Pamphylia in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene and strangers of Rome Jews and proselytes
- GK: Φρυγίαν τε και Παμφυλίαν Αίγυπτον και τα μέρη της Λιβύης της κατά Κυρήνην και οι επιδημούντες Ρωμαίοι Ιουδαίοί τε και προσήλυτοι
Acts 17:21
- KJV: For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing
- GK: Αθηναίοι δε πάντες και οι επιδημούντες ξένοι εις ουδέν έτερον ηυκαίρουν η λέγειν τι και ακούειν καινότερον
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