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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.).)
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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.

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - “And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Step aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and stepped up to break the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 -

And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the [fn]Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the lovingkindness that I have shown you, you shall show me and the land in which you have sojourned.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - “And 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 [fn]live;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - “Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord, to Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban and have been delayed until now;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 -

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 -

Now Jacob lived in the land [fn]where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And 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 heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are [fn]130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not [fn]attained to the days of the years [fn]that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - “And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the [fn]land in which they sojourned.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 -

but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 -

but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male slave or your female slave or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 -

“Now if a Levite comes from any of your gates of the towns throughout Israel where he sojourns and comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which Yahweh chooses,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, ‘My father was a [fn]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and [fn]sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 -

“Gilead dwelt across the Jordan;

And why did Dan stay in ships?

Asher sat at the seashore,

And dwelt by its landings.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

And there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man went from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn wherever I may find a place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was willing to remain with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 -

But behold, an old man was coming from his work, from the field, at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

Now it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 -

Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go [fn]with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 -

When you were only a few men in number,

Of little account, and sojourners in it,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are sojourners before You, and foreign residents, like all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who sojourned with them, for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 -

‘So everyone who remains, at whatever place he may sojourn, let the men of [fn]that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 -

For I have heard [fn]the bad report of many,

Terror is on every side;

While they took counsel together against me,

They schemed to take my life.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 -

They [fn]attack, they lurk,

They watch my heels,

As they have hoped to take my [fn]life.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 -

Let me sojourn in Your tent forever;

Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 -

If Yahweh had not been my help,

My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 -

Then Israel came to Egypt;

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 -

Too long has my soul had its dwelling

With those who hate peace.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 -

Do not devise [fn]harm against your neighbor,

While he lives securely beside you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 -

“Let the [fn]banished of Moab sojourn with you;

Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,

Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 -

Do not go out into the field

And do not walk on the road,

For the enemy has a sword;

Terror is on every side.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - ‘So there will be no one who escapes or any survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to sojourn there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are [fn]longing to return to live; for none will return except a few who escape.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 -

“As when God overthrew Sodom

And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares Yahweh,

“No man will live there,

Nor will any son of man sojourn in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 -

Samekh

“Depart! Unclean!” [fn]they cried of themselves.

“Depart, depart, do not touch!”

So they fled and wandered;

Men among the nations said,

“They shall not continue to sojourn with us.”

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; therefore slap your thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “And it will be that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the sojourners who sojourn in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel. They shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 -

The dweller of Samaria will fear

For the [fn]calf of Beth-aven.

Indeed, its people will mourn for it,

And its idolatrous priests [fn]will cry out over it,

Over its glory, since it has gone into exile from them.

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