STRONGS NT 3927: παρεπίδημος

παρεπίδημος, παρεπιδημον (see ἐπιδημέω), properly, "one who comes from a foreign country into a city or land to reside there by the side of the natives; hence, stranger; sojourning in a strange place, a foreigner" (Polybius 32, 22, 4; Athen. 5, p. 196 a.); in the N. T. metaphorically, in reference to heaven as the native country, one who sojourns on earth: so of Christians, 1 Peter 1:1; joined with πάροικοι, 1 Peter 2:11, cf. 1:17, (Christians πατριδας οἰκοῦσιν ἰδίας, ἀλλ' ὡς πάροικοι. μετεχουσι πάντων ὡς πολῖται, καί πανθ' ὑπομένουσιν ὡς ξένοι. πᾶσα ξένῃ πατρίς ἐστιν αὐτῶν καί πᾶσα πατρίς ξένῃ, Ep. ad Diogn. c. 5 [ET]); of the patriarchs, ξένοι καί παρεπίδημοί ἐπί τῆς γῆς, Hebrews 11:13 (Genesis 23:4; Psalm 38:13 (); παρεπιδημια τίς ἐστιν ὁ βίος, Aeschines dial. Socrates 3, 3, where see Fischer).

Forms and Transliterations

παρεπιδημοι παρεπίδημοί παρεπιδημοις παρεπιδήμοις παρεπίδημος παρεπιδημους παρεπιδήμους parepidemoi parepidēmoi parepídemoí parepídēmoí parepidemois parepidēmois parepidḗmois parepidemous parepidēmous parepidḗmous

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