Senses
1. to go on a journey, to travel abroad — To depart on a journey to a distant place, especially to travel abroad or to a far country. In the NT, this verb appears almost exclusively in Jesus' parables about absent landlords or masters (Matt 21:33, 25:14-15; Mark 12:1; Luke 15:13, 20:9). Multilingual translations confirm a single semantic concept: Spanish 'se fue de viaje / que viaja,' Hindi 'pardesh chalaa gayaa' (परदेश चला गया), Arabic 'saafara' (سافر) and 'musaafirun' (مسافرٌ), Korean 'tteonatta / taguk-e gamyeonseo' (떠났다/타국에 가면서), and Swahili 'akasafiri / asafirishaye.' The split between S62813 (aorist indicative 'went away') and S62816 (present participle 'going on a journey') is tense-aspect morphology, not a semantic difference. 6×
AR["سافَرَ","سَافَرَ","مُسَافِرٌ"]·ben["চলে-গেল","পরদেশে-গেলেন","বিদেশ-যেতে-যেতে","বিদেশে-গেলেন","যথেষ্ট"]·DE["ἀπεδήμησεν","ἀποδημῶν"]·EN["going-on-a-journey","he-went-away","he-went-on-a-journey","journeyed-away","went-abroad"]·FR["voyager"]·heb["הָלַךְ","נָסַע","נוֹסֵעַ"]·HI["चला-गया","परदेश-गया","परदेश-चला-गया","परदेश-जाते-हुए","परदेस-गया"]·ID["bepergian","pergi","pergi-jauh","pergi-ke-luar-negeri","pergi-ke-negeri-lain"]·IT["apedemesen","apodemon"]·jav["badhé-tindak-dhateng-negari-tebih","bidhal","kesah","késah","késah-tebih","tindak-dhateng-negari-tebih"]·KO["떠났다","여행했다","타국-에-가면서"]·PT["ausentou-se","partindo-em-viagem","partiu","viajou."]·RU["отправился","отправился-в-путь","отправляющийся-в-путь","уехал","уехал."]·ES["partió","partió-de-viaje","que-viaja","se-fue","se-fue-de-viaje"]·SW["akasafiri","alisafiri","asafirishaye"]·TR["ayrıldı","gitti","yolculuğa-çıkarak","yolculuğa-çıktı"]·urd["سفر-پر-جانے-والے-نے","سفر-کو-گیا","سفر-کیا","پردیس-گیا","چلا-گیا"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀποδημ-έω, Doric dialect ἀπο-δᾱμέω, perfect ἀπεδήμηκα uncertain in Refs 5th c.BC+:— to be away from home, be abroad or on one's travels, Refs 5th c.BC+; of foreign service, Refs; opposed to ἐπιδημεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, to be absent, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 go abroad, παρά τινα to visit him, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. ἐς Αἴγιναν κατὰ τοὺς Αἰακίδας go abroad to Aegina to fetch the Aeacidae, Refs 5th c.BC+