Quick Definition
παρεπίδημος, ον Adj residing in a strange country, a stranger
Strong's Definition
from 3844 and the base of 1927; an alien alongside, i.e. a resident foreigner
KJV Usage: pilgrim, stranger
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | δῆμος
11.77 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · Socio-Political
alien, stranger, temporary resident (derivative of ἐπιδημέω ‘to live as a foreigner,’ 85.78) a person who for a period of time lives in a place which is not his normal residence In ACT 7:6 the expression ‘as strangers in a foreign country’ may be rendered ‘as strangers living in a country which was not their own.’ Similarly, ‘who live as aliens’ may also be rendered as ‘who live in countries not their own’ or ‘who live with people to whose nation they do not belong.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρ-επί-δημος, -ov, (see ἐπιδημέω), prop. one who comes from a foreign country into a city or land to reside there by the side of the natives; hence stranger ; sojourning ina strange place, a foreigner, (Polyb. 32, 22,4; Athen. 5 p-196a.); inthe Ν. Τ᾿ metaph. in ref. to heaven as the native country, one who sojourns on earth: so of Christians, 1 Pet. i.1; joined with πάροικοι, 1 Pet. 11. 11, ef. i. 17, (Christians πατρίδας οἰκοῦσιν ἰδίας, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς πάροικοι" μετέχουσι πάντων ὡς πολῖται, καὶ πάνθ᾽ ὑπομένουσιν ὡς ξένοι: πᾶσα ξένη πατρίς ἐστιν αὐτῶν, καὶ πᾶσα πατρὶς ξένη, Ep. δὰ Diogn.c.5); of the patriarchs, ξένοι κι παρεπίδημοι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, Heb. xi. 13 (Gen. xxiii. 4; Ps. xxxviil. (xxxix.) 13; παρεπιδημία tis ἐστιν ὁ Bios, Aeschin. dial. Socr. 3, 3, where see Fischer).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παρεπίδημος parepidēmos 3x
residing in a country not one’s own, a sojourner, stranger, Heb. 11:13; 1 Pet. 1:1; 2:11*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† παρ-επί-δημος, -ον
(v.s. ἐπιδημέω), [in LXX: Ge 23:4, Ps 38 (39):12 (תּוֹשָׁב)*;]
sojourning in a strange place; as subst., ὁ π., a sojourner: of Christians, I Pe 1:1; ξένοι καὶ π., He 11:13; πάροικοι καὶ π., I Pe 2:11 (v. Deiss., BS, 149).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παρεπίδημος. The sense of ‘‘a sojourner,”’ or “‘a stranger ”’ settled in a particular district only for a time, which is confined in the LXX to Gen 234, Ps 38(39)!, and in the NT to1 Pet 12 (see Hort’s note), 211, Heb 114%, can be well authenticated in our documents. Thus in a Will, P Petr IIL. 7% (Bc. 238-7), a bequest is made to a certain Apoilonius—tapertδημον ὃς καὶ Συριστὶ ᾿Ιωνάθας [καλεῖται, and in P Tor II. 815 (8.6. 118) παρεπιδημοῦντες (feregrinz) and κατοικοῦντες (tzcolae) are distinguished. Cf. also OG/S 383° (mid. i/B.C.) πλῆθος ἐπιχώριον Kal παρεπίδημον, and Polyb. xxxii. 22. 4. The corr. verb is common, e.g. P Petr II. 13(19)!# (mid. ili/B.C.) ὅπως τ[οῦτό]ν ye τὸν χρόνον παρεπιδημῆις, ‘in order that for this season at least you may sojourn with us ’”’ (Ed.), BGU I. 113! (A.D. 143) βουλόμενος παρεπιδημεῖν πρὸς καιρόν, P Oxy III. 473? (A.p. 138-160) a decree in honour of a gymnasiarch by the magistrates and people of Oxyrhynchus together with the ‘‘resident’” Roman and Alexandrian citizens—Plopatoy καὶ ᾿Αλεξανδρέων τοῖς
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παρεπίδημος (parepidēmos) — stranger. παρεπί-δημος, ον, sojourning in a strange place, especially as substantive, [LXX+3rd c.BC+]