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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 - And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, 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 - And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of 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 thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy 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 unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah 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 out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go 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 was unto him as one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah 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 - And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and 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 ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, 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 whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering 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 have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 - Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 - My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear 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, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
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