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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 BoxGen 12:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he linger by the ships? Asher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[fn] he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - Micah asked him, “Where are you from?” “I’m a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he said, “and I’m looking for a place to stay.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - So the Levite agreed to live with him, and the young man became like one of his sons to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled,[fn] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim and have resided there as foreigners to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 - When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 - For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, hoping to take my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 - Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighboring towns,”

declares the LORD,

“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven.[fn] Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, those who had rejoiced over its splendor, because it is taken from them into exile.
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