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Lexicon :: Strong's G3941 - paroikos

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πάροικος
Transliteration
paroikos (Key)
Pronunciation
par'-oy-kos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:841,788

Strong’s Definitions

πάροικος pároikos, par'-oy-kos; from G3844 and G3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident):—foreigner, sojourn, stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G3941 in the following manner: stranger (2x), sojourn (1x), foreigner (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G3941 in the following manner: stranger (2x), sojourn (1x), foreigner (1x).

  1. dwelling near, neighbouring

  2. in the NT, a stranger, a foreigner, one who lives in a place without the right of citizenship

  3. metaph.

    1. without citizenship in God's kingdom

    2. one who lives on earth as a stranger, a sojourner on the earth

    3. of Christians whose home is in heaven

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πάροικος pároikos, par'-oy-kos; from G3844 and G3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident):—foreigner, sojourn, stranger.
STRONGS G3941:
πάροικος, πάροικον (παρά and οἶκος);
1. in classical Greek dwelling near, neighboring.
2. in the Scriptures a stranger, foreigner, one who lives in a place without the right of citizenship; (R. V. sojourner); the Sept. for גֵּר and תּושָׁב (see παροικέω 2, and παροικία (and cf. Schmidt, Syn., 43, 5; Liddell and Scott, under the word)): followed by ἐν with the dative of place, Acts 7:6, 29; metaphorically, without citizenship in God's kingdom: joined with ξένος and opposed to συμπολίτης, Ephesians 2:19 (μόνος κύριος ὁ Θεός πολίτης ἐστι, πάροικον δέ καί ἐπηλυτον τό γενητον ἅπαν, Philo de cherub. § 34 (cf. Mangey 1:161 note)); one who lives on earth as a stranger, a sojourner on the earth: joined with παρεπίδημος (which see), of Christians, whose fatherland is heaven, 1 Peter 2:11. (Cf. Ep. ad Diognet. § 5, 5 [ET].)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
7:6; 7:29
Ephesians
2:19
1 Peter
2:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3941 matches the Greek πάροικος (paroikos),
which occurs 26 times in 25 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - A sojourner or hireling shall not eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons: the name of the one was Gersam, his father saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land;—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee thither who has killed a man unintentionally.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - (LXX 23:8) Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - And there was [fn]a Levite sojourning in the [fn]sides of mount Ephraim, and he took to himself a [fn]concubine from Bethleem Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said to the young man who brought the tidings to him, Whence art thou? and he said, I am the son of an Amalekite sojourner.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - And in the days of Saul they made war upon the sojourners in the land; and they fell into their hands, all of them dwelling in their tents eastward of Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - (LXX 38:13) O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - (LXX 104:12) when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 - (LXX 118:19) I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - (LXX 30:12) As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 - Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbours of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling-place.
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