Lexical Summary ekdēmeō: to be away from home, absent Original Word: ἐκδημέωTransliteration: ekdēmeō Phonetic Spelling: (ek-day-meh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be away from home, absent Meaning: to be away from home, absent Strong's Concordance be absent. From a compound of ek and demos; to emigrate, i.e. (figuratively) vacate or quit -- be absent. see GREEK ek see GREEK demos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1553: ἐκδημέωἐκδημέω, ἐκδήμω; 1 aorist infinitive ἐκδημῆσαι; (ἔκδημος away from home); 1. to go abroad (Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Josephus, others); hence, universally, to emigrate, depart: ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, from the body as the earthly abode of the spirit, 2 Corinthians 5:8. 2. to be or live abroad: 2 Corinthians 5:9; ἀπό τοῦ κυρίου, abode with whom is promised us, 2 Corinthians 5:6; in these examples opposed to ἐνδήμω, which see |