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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Countrymen
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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properly denotes "an offspring;" then, "a family;" then, "a race, nation;" otherwise, "a kind or species;" it is translated "countrymen," in 2 Corinthians 11:26 , in Paul's reference to his fellow-nationals; so in Galatians 1:14 , RV, for AV, "nation." See BEGET.
lit., "a fellow-tribesman" (sun, "with," phule, "a tribe, race, nation, people"), hence, one who is of the same people, a fellow-countryman, is found in 1 Thessalonians 2:14 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Countrymen'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/countrymen.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Countrymen'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/countrymen.html. 1940.
