G1927: ἐπιδημέω (epidēméō)

G1927 ἐπιδημέω (epidēméō)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἐπιδημέω v. I sojourn, am resident

Strong's Definition

from a compound of 1909 and 1218; to make oneself at home, i.e. (by extension) to reside (in a foreign country)

KJV Usage: (be) dwelling (which were) there, stranger

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐπιδημέω (G1927)

verb | δῆμος

85.78 · Existence in Space · Dwell, Reside

to sojourn, to live as a foreigner to dwell more or less permanently in a place which is not one’s own country; (compare related meanings in 11.7.)

ACT 2:10 · ACT 17:21

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἐπιδημέω, -@; (emidnuos) ; 1. to be present among one’s people, in one’s city or in one’s native land, [cf. ἐπί, Ὁ. 1], (Thue., Plato, al.; opp. to ἀποδημεῖν, Xen. Cyr. 7,5, 69 ; ἐπιδημεῖν ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ, Theoph. ad Autol. 2, 12 [p- 88 ed. Otto]). 2. to be a sojourner, a foreign resident, among any people, in any country: Acts ii. 10; of ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι. Acts xvii. 21; (Xen., Plato, Theophr., Leian., Aelian, al.).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἐπιδημέω epidēmeō 2x

to dwell among a people; to be at home among one’s own people; and in NT to sojourn as a stranger among another people, Acts 2:10; 17:21*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ἐπι-δημέω, -ῶ

(< δῆμος);

to be at home (Thuc., Plat., al.),

to stay in a place, sojourn (Plat., Xen., al.; and v. MM, Exp., xiv): Ac 2:10 17:21; seq. ἐν, ib. 18:27 (WH, mg.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἐπιδημέω. The meaning of this word (see ἃς 2?°, 1721) is well brought out in P Par 69 (A.D. 233), extracts from the day-book of a strategus, where it is used of his arrival and temporary sojourn in a place, as ἀποδημέω is of his departure: see further Wilcken A7chiv iv. p. 374, cf. p. 422. The actual Lukan phrase οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι (Ac 1774) may be paralleled from the inscrr., e.g. Priene 108?* (after B.C. 129) παρὰ τοῖς ἐπιδεδίημηκόσι τῶν ξένων, 111787 (i/B.c.) τοὺς ἐπιδεδίημηκότας ξένους : see Rouffiac, p. 44. Other exx. of the verb are P Par 26134 (B.c. 163-2) (= Se/ectzons, p. 13) where the Serapeum Twins refer to a petition which they had addressed to Ptolemy and ΟἸεοραίτα---ἐπιδημήσα[σι]ν ἐν Μέμφει, ‘‘when they were in residence at Memphis,” P Oxy IV. 7058° ἐπιδημήσ[ζαν)7τες τῷ ἔθνει of the visit of Severus and Caracalla to Egypt in A.D. 202, and CP Herm I. 81:8 μέχρις ἂν ἐπιδημήσῃ ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθοῖς ὁ λαμπρότίατος ἡγεμών. For the corresponding subst. see P Gen I. 31 (A.D. 145-6) Audokopos . . . ἑκάστοτέ σοι κατ᾽ ἐπιδημίαν παρενοχλῶν, ‘‘Dioscurus who is always troubling you (the strategus) on the occasion of your visitation,” OGZS 5177 (iii/A.D.) κατὰ τὴν... [Αὐ]τοκράτορος ᾿Αντωνίνου [ἐ]πιδημίαν : the word is thus practically synonymous with the more technical παρουσία ; see Milligan Zhess., p. 145 fi.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἐπιδημέω (epidēmeō) — to sojourn. ἐπιδημ-έω, to be at home, live at home, opposed to ἀποδημέω, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. Ἀθήνησι stay at home at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. of diseases, to be prevalent, epidemic, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. come home, [Refs 5th c.BC+].

III. of foreigners, come to stay in a city, reside in a place, οἱ -οῦντες ἐν [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. εἰς Μέγαρα come to Megara to stay there, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. τοῖς μυστηρίοις to be present at, attend them, [Refs 4th c.BC+] all who were present[at the festival], [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: laterc. dative,[Refs 2nd c.BC+]

III.2. absolutely,stay in a place, be in town, [NT+6th c.BC+].

III.3. ἐ. τινί visit a person, [Refs 4th c.AD+]