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Strong's #3927 - παρεπίδημος
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- one who comes from a foreign country into a city or land to reside there by the side of the natives
- a stranger
- sojourning in a strange place, a foreigner
- in the NT metaph. in reference to heaven as the native country, one who sojourns on earth
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παρεπί-δημος, ον,
sojourning in a strange place, esp. as Subst., LXX Genesis 23:4, PPetr. 3 P. 14 (iii B. C.), Callix. 2, Plb. 32.6.4, etc.
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
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† παρ -επί -δημος , -ον
(see ἐπιδημέω ),
[in LXX: Genesis 23:4, Psalms 39:12 (H8453)*;]
sojourning in a strange place; as subst., ὁ Papyri, a sojourner: of Christians, 1 Peter 1:1; ξένοι καὶ Papyri, Hebrews 11:13; πάροικοι καὶ Papyri, 1 Peter 2:11 (v. Deiss., BS, 149).†
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a term of the deepest opprobrium, drawn from the ";rinsing"; of a dirty vessel. In the only place in which it occurs in the NT, 1 Corinthians 4:13, there may be some reference to the fact that it was the most wretched and outcast, who used to be sacrificed as expiatory offerings : cf. Proverbs 21:11 and Epict. iii. 22. 78. ";Possibly some cry of this sort, anticipating the ‘Christiani ad leones’ of the martyrdoms, had been raised against P(aul) by the Ephesian populace (cf. xv. 32; also Acts xxii. 22)"; (Findlay EGT ad 1 Corinthians 4:13). The word is fully illustrated by Wetstein ad l.c. : see also Lietzmann in HZNT.
The verb (Deuteronomy 18:10) is found in Didache iii. 4 μηδὲ ἐπαοιδὸς μηδὲ μαθηματικὸς μηδὲ περικαθαίρων.
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