Pilgrim

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: παρεπίδημος (Strong'S #3927 — Adjective — parepidemos — par-ep-id'-ay-mos )

an adjective signifying "sojourning in a strange place, away from one's own people" (para, "from," expressing a contrary condition, and epidemeo, "to sojourn;" demos, "a people"), is used of OT saints,  Hebrews 11:13 , "pilgrims" (coupled with xenos, "a foreigner"); of Christians,  1 Peter 1:1 , "sojourners (of the Dispersion)," RV;  Hebrews 2:11 , "pilgrims" (coupled with paroikos, "an alien, sojourner"); the word is thus used metaphorically of those to whom Heaven is their own country, and who are sojourners on earth.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

(2): ( a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

(3): ( v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

(4): ( n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Hebrews 11:13 (b) This name is applied to the Christian's attitude toward the world. Though he lives in it, he is not a part of it. He is only occupied with its affairs insofar as this is necessary for proper living. The Christian belongs to Heaven. His hopes and ambitions are for the other world. He is a citizen of GOD's kingdom. The Saviour explains this fully in His prayer in joh17. (See also1Pe  2:11).

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

One who travels through foreign countries to visit holy places, and to pay his devotion to the relics of dead saints. The word is formed from the Flemish Pelgrim, or Italian, pelegrino, which signifies the same; and those originally from the Latin peregrinus, a stranger or traveller.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

See Stranger.

Bridgeway Bible Dictionary

See Foreigner .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is used in the A. V. only in the old sense of sojourner, for παρεπίδημος ( Hebrews 11:13;  1 Peter 2:11; "stranger,"  1 Peter 1:1). Similarly in the O.T. "pilgrimage" occurs as a rendering of מָגוּר, Maguir, which signifies a Stay, or an abode in a foreign country, travels (en. 17:8). Metaphorically, it is applied to the sojourning on earth; thus the patriarch Jacob says to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years ( Genesis 47:9). The Psalmist likewise says, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage" ( Psalms 119:54).