Bible Dictionary
COUNTRYMAN
A countryman is someone of the same tribe, race, nation, or kin. The term can describe fellow believers from the same region or people who share a common national identity.
Definition
A countryman is one of the same tribe, race, nation, or kin. The term emphasizes shared origin or national identity and may refer to fellow members of one’s own people.
Biblical Usage
It describes people of the same tribe and, in idiomatic renderings, those of one’s own race, nation, or kin. The word can also apply to fellow believers from the same people.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>kun'-tri-man (sumphuletes): "Of the same tribe" (1Th 2:14); also in idiomatic rendering (genos) for those of one's own race or kin (2Co 11:26; Ga 1:14 the King James Version, "one's own nation"). Compare Mr 6:4; Ro 9:3; and see COUSIN; KINSMAN, etc.</p>