Lexical Summary epidēmeō: to be at home Original Word: ἐπιδημέωTransliteration: epidēmeō Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-day-meh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be at home Meaning: to be at home Strong's Concordance 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1927: ἐπιδημέωἐπιδημέω, 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). |