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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, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as 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!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - “Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have dwelt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - “Now 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 - “Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba[fn] (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - Now Jacob dwelt in the land where 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 - And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, 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 pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty 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 pilgrimage.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - “I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which 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 your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger 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 dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted 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 your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger 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 - “So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: ‘My father was a Syrian,[fn] about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt 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 why did Dan remain on ships?[fn]
Asher continued at the seashore,
And stayed by his inlets.

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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; he was a Levite, and was staying there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of 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 to him, “Where do you come from?” So he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - Just then an old man came in from his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephraim; he was staying in Gibeah, whereas 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 Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell 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 - because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and furthermore, 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 saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt 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,
Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are aliens and pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers 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 whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings 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 hear the slander of many;
Fear is on every side;
While they take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They gather together,
They hide, they mark my steps,
When they lie in wait for my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;
I will trust in the shelter of Your 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 would soon have settled in silence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 - Israel also came into Egypt,
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 - My soul has dwelt too long
With one who hates peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.
For the extortioner is at an end,
Devastation ceases,
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 says the Lord GOD:

“My people went down at first
Into Egypt to dwell 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,
Nor walk by the way.
Because of the sword of the enemy,
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 who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return except those who escape.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the LORD,
“So no one shall reside there,
Nor son of man dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - They cried out to them,
“Go away, unclean!
Go away, go away,
Do not touch us!”
When they fled and wandered,
Those among the nations said,
“They shall no longer dwell here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - “Cry and wail, son of man;
For it will be against My people,
Against all the princes of Israel.
Terrors including the sword will be against My people;
Therefore strike your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have 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 fear
Because of the calf[fn] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And its priests shriek for it—
Because its glory has departed from it.
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