ἐπιδημέω, ἐπιδήμω; (ἐπίδημος); 1. to be present among one's people, in one's city or in one's native loud (cf. ἐπί D. 1) (Thucydides, Plato, others; opposed to ἀποδήμειν, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 69; ἐπιδήμειν ἐν τῷ δέ τῷ βίῳ, Theophilus ad Autol. 2, 12 (p. 88, Otto edition)). 2. to be a sojourner, a foreign resident, among any people, in any country: Act_2:10; οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι, Act_17:21; (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others).

ἐπιδημέω epidēmeō 2x to dwell among a people; to be at home among one s own people; and in NT to sojourn as a stranger among another people, Act_2:10 ; Act_17:21

*ἐπι -δημέω , -ῶ ( < δῆμος ); 1. to be at home ( Thuc ., Plat ., al. ), 2. to stay in a place, sojourn ( Plat ., Xen ., al. ; and v. MM , Exp., xiv): Act_2:10 ; Act_17:21 ; seq . ἐν , Act_18:27 ( WH , mg .).†

ἐπιδημέω [page 237] The meaning of this word (see Act_2:10 ; Act_17:21 ) is well brought out in P Par 69 (A.D. 233), extracts from the day-book of a strategus, where it is used of his arrival and temporary sojourn in a place, as ἀποδημέω is of his departure : see further Wilcken Archiv iv. p. 374, cf. p. 422. The actual Lukan phrase οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι ( Act_17:21 ) may be paralleled from the inscrr., e.g. Priene 108 .266 (after B.C. 129) παρὰ τοῖς ἐπιδεδ̣[ημηκόσι τῶν ξένων , 111 .187 (i/B.C.) τοὺς ἐπιδεδ [η̣μ̣η̣κότας ξένους : see Rouffiac, p. 44. Other exx. of the verb are P Par 26 i. 4 (B.C. 163 2) (= Selections , p. 13) where the Serapeum Twins refer to a petition which they had addressed to Ptolemy and Cleopatra ἐπιδημήσα [σι ]ν ἐν Μέμφει , when they were in residence at Memphis, P Oxy IV. 705 .36 ἐπιδημήσ [αν ]τες τῷ ἔθνει of the visit of Severus and Caracalla to Egypt in A.D. 202, and CP Herm I. 8 ii. 3 μέχρις ἂν ἐπιδημήσῃ ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθοῖς ὁ λαμπρότ̣[ατος ἡγεμών . For the corresponding subst. see P Gen I. 31 .4 (A.D. 145 6) Διόσκορος . . . ἑκάστοτέ σοι κατ᾽ ἐπιδημίαν παρενοξλῶν , Dioscurus who is always troubling you (the strategus) on the occasion of your visitation, OGIS 517 .7 (iii/A.D.) κατὰ τὴν . . . [Αὐ ]τοκράτορος Ἀντωνίνου [ἐ ]πιδημίαν : the word is thus practically synonymous with the more technical παρουσία ; see Milligan Thess. , p. 145 ff.

ἐπιδημέω fut. ήσω [Etym: ἐπίδημος] "to be at home, live at home", opp. to ἀποδημέω, Thuc. , Xen. "to come home" from foreign parts, id=Xen. , Aeschin. of foreigners, "to stay in" a place, ἐν τόπῳ Xen. ; ἐπ. τοῖς μυστηρίοις "to attend" them, Dem. :—absol. "to be in town", Plat.

ἐπι-δημέω, -ῶ (δῆμος); __1. to be at home (Thuc., Plat., al.), __2. to stay in a place, sojourn (Plat., Xen., al.; and see MM, Exp., xiv): Act.2:10 17:21; before ἐν, Act.18:27 (WH, mg.).† (AS)