stranger
parepidemos describes people identified as living away from a settled homeland, addressed as scattered, exiled, or on the earth.
The three verses present the term for people identified as living away from settled belonging: dispersed addressees, believers urged as sojourners and exiles, and people who confess themselves strangers and exiles on the earth.
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People living as dispersed or temporary residents · dominant
In 1 Peter 1:1, the dative plural masculine form identifies the addressees as dispersed across named places; the APB renders the verse's address to "the elect strangers of the dispersion." In 1 Peter 2:11, the accusative plural masculine form occurs in an appeal to abstain from desires, and the APB renders the clause "as sojourners and exiles." Hebrews 11:13 uses the nominative plural masculine form for those who confessed their status "on the earth."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with "strangers of the dispersion," "sojourners and exiles," and "strangers and exiles on the earth." These phrases show the verses' presentation rather than assigning each English term precisely to the lemma.