Word Summary
endēmeō: to be in one's own country, to be at home
Original Word: ἐνδημέωTransliteration: endēmeō
Phonetic Spelling: (en-day-meh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be in one's own country, to be at home
Meaning: to be in one's own country, to be at home
Strong's Concordance
be at home
From a compound of en and demos; to be in one's own country, i.e. Home (figuratively) -- be at home (present).
see GREEK en
see GREEK demos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1736: ἐνδημέωἐνδημέω,
ἐνδήμω; 1 aorist infinitive
ἐνδημῆσαι; (
ἔνδημος one who is among his own people or in his own land, one who does not travel abroad; opposed to
ἔκδημος), properly,
to be among one's own people, dwell in one's own country, stay at home (opposed to
ἐκδημέω,
ἀποδημέω; see those words); equivalent to
to have a fixed abode, be at home, ἐν τῷ σώματι, of life on earth,
2 Corinthians 5:6, 9;
πρός τόν κύριον, of life in heaven,
2 Corinthians 5:8. (Rare in the classics, as
Lysias, p. 114, 36.)