STRONGS G3927:
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 (
Ps. 39:13);
παρεπιδημια τίς ἐστιν ὁ βίος,
Aeschines dial.
Socrates 3, 3, where see Fischer).
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