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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 - “I will give to you and to your [fn]descendants 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 aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came in [fn]as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and came near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the [fn]Negev, and [fn]settled between Kadesh and Shur; then 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 offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

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

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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 [fn]live;

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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 bless you, for to you and to your [fn]descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He also commanded them saying, “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 - Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of 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 - Now Jacob lived in the land [fn]where his father had sojourned, 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. Now, therefore, please let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The [fn]years of my sojourning are one hundred and [fn]thirty; few and [fn]unpleasant have been the [fn]years of my life, nor have they [fn]attained the [fn]years [fn]that my fathers lived during 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 [fn]land in which they sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who [fn]stays with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in 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 cattle or your sojourner who [fn]stays with you, so 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 - “Now if a Levite comes from any of your [fn]towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “You shall answer and say before the LORD 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - “Gilead [fn]remained across the Jordan;
And why did Dan stay in ships?
Asher sat at the seashore,
And [fn]remained by its landings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was [fn]staying there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to [fn]stay 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - 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 [fn]stay wherever I may find a place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - The Levite agreed to live 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 - Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was [fn]staying 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 about in the days when the judges [fn]governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab [fn]with 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 have been aliens there until this day).

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

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 the LORD has called for a famine, and it will even come on 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, 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 they were only a few in number,
Very few, and strangers in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who resided with them, for many defected 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 - ‘Every survivor, at whatever place he may [fn]live, 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.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 - For I have heard the [fn]slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They [fn]attack, they lurk,
They watch my [fn]steps,
As they have waited to take my [fn]life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - Let me [fn]dwell in Your tent forever;
Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. [fn]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 dwelt in the abode of silence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 - Too long has my soul had its dwelling
With those who hate peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - “Let the [fn]outcasts of Moab stay 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:25

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:14

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - “As when God overthrew Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the LORD,
“No man will live there,
Nor will any son of man reside in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “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 dwell with us.”

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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 officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants 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 departed from it.
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