Countrymen - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Countrymen

[ 1,,G1085, genos ]
properly denotes an offspring;" then, "a family;" then, "a race, nation;" otherwise, "a kind or species;" it is translated "countrymen," in 2 Corinthians 11:26, in Paul's reference to his fellow-nationals; so in Galatians 1:14, RV, for AV, "nation." See BEGET.

[ 2,,G4853, sumphuletes ]
lit., "a fellow-tribesman" (sun, "with," phule, "a tribe, race, nation, people"), hence, one who is of the same people, a fellow-countryman, is found in 1 Thessalonians 2:14.

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