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Lexicon :: Strong's G3939 - paroikeō

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παροικέω
Transliteration
paroikeō (Key)
Pronunciation
par-oy-keh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:841,788

Strong’s Definitions

παροικέω paroikéō, par-oy-keh'-o; from G3844 and G3611; to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner:—sojourn in, be a stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G3939 in the following manner: be a stranger (1x), sojourn (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G3939 in the following manner: be a stranger (1x), sojourn (1x).

  1. to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighbourhood, to live near

  2. in the NT, to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παροικέω paroikéō, par-oy-keh'-o; from G3844 and G3611; to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner:—sojourn in, be a stranger.
STRONGS G3939:
παροικέω, παροίκῳ; 1 aorist παρῴκησα;
1. properly, to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighborhood (παρά, IV. 1); to live near; (Xenophon, Thucydides, Isocrates, others).
2. in the Scriptures to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn (the Sept. for גּוּר, several times also for יָשַׁב and שָׁכַן): followed by ἐν with a dative of place, Luke 24:18 R L (Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:34; Genesis 26:3; Exodus 12:40, the Alex. manuscript; Leviticus 18:3 (Ald.), etc.); with an accusative of place, ibid. G T Tr WH (Genesis 17:8; Exodus 6:4); εἰς with the accusative of place (in pregnant construction; see εἰς, C. 2), Hebrews 11:9. (Metaphorically and absolutely, to dwell on the earth, Philo de cherub. § 34 (cf. Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 1 [ET] and Lightfoot and Harnack at the passage; Holtzmann, Einl. ins N. T., p. 484f. Synonym: see κατοικέω.).)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
17:8; 20:1; 21:34; 26:3
Exodus
6:4; 12:40
Leviticus
18:3
Luke
24:18
Hebrews
11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3939 matches the Greek παροικέω (paroikeō),
which occurs 53 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires[fn]—to the place that the LORD will choose,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
Asher sat still at the coast of the sea,
staying by his landings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 - When you were few in number,
of little account, and sojourners in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 - For I hear the whispering of many—
terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps,
as they have waited for my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - Let me dwell in your tent forever!
Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - If the LORD had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 - Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 - Too long have I had my dwelling
among those who hate peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not plan evil against your neighbor,
who dwells trustingly beside you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - let the outcasts of Moab
sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them[fn]
from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says the Lord GOD: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Go not out into the field,
nor walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
terror is on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf[fn] of Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—
for it has departed[fn] from them.
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