Definition

absent from one's own people, i.e. a foreign traveller

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and G1218 (δῆμος);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• δῆμος dēmos

How the KJV renders it

• taking a far journey

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.