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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 Box Gen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, [fn]and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a sojourner and a foreign resident among you; give me a possession for a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him [fn]Gershom, for he said, “I have been a [fn]sojourner in a foreign land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - “A foreign resident or a hired person shall not eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons, of whom [fn]one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a [fn]sojourner in a foreign land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 -

‘No [fn]layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And the sabbath produce of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you.

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‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but sojourners and foreign residents with Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

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‘Now if a brother of yours becomes poor and his [fn]means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a sojourner or a foreign resident, that he may live with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - ‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘And also you may acquire from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession.

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‘Now if the [fn]means of a sojourner or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a sojourner who resides with you or to the descendants of a sojourner’s family,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner and for the foreign resident among them; that anyone who strikes a person down unintentionally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 -

“You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 -

“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 -

Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” And he [fn]answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, and they fell by their hand. So they lived in their tents throughout [fn]all the land east of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 -

“Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear to my cry for help;

Do not be silent at my tears;

For I am a sojourner with You,

A foreign resident like all my fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 -

When they were only a few men in number,

Of little account, and sojourners in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 -

I am a sojourner in the earth;

Do not hide Your commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“O Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a sojourner in the land

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent to lodge for the night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - “Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man sojourn in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 -

Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,

The nation of the [fn]Cherethites!

The word of Yahweh is against you,

O Canaan, land of the Philistines;

And I will make you perish

So that there will be no inhabitant.

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