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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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 [fn]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, [fn]where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me [fn]a burial site among you so 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 stranger in a foreign land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - “A stranger or a hired worker shall not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons, [fn]one of whom was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a stranger 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 worker shall not eat the holy gift.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘All of you shall have the Sabbath produce of the land as food; for yourself, your male and female slaves, and your hired worker and your foreign resident, those who live as strangers among you.

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‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because the land is Mine; for you are only strangers and residents with Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 -

‘Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his [fn]means among you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a resident, so 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 worker, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you up to the year of jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘You may also acquire them from the sons of the foreign residents who reside among you, and from their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

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‘Now if the [fn]means of a stranger or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes poor in relation to him and sells himself to a stranger who is residing with you, or to the descendants of a stranger’s family,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreign resident among them; so that anyone who [fn]kills a person 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 stranger who is in your [fn]town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a stranger; for you are a holy people to the LORD 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 loathe an [fn]Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not loathe an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 -

Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite [fn]staying 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 - Then David said to the young man who informed him, “Where are you from?” And he [fn]answered, “I am the son of a stranger, 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, who fell by their hand, so that they [fn]occupied their tents throughout the [fn]land east of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are strangers before You, and temporary residents, 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 Psa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 -

“Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry for help;

Do not be silent to my tears;

For I am a stranger with You,

One who lives abroad, 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 people in number,

Very few, and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 -

I am a stranger on the earth;

Do not hide Your commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a stranger in the land,

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent 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 the LORD, “no one will live there, nor will [fn]anyone of mankind reside 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 the LORD is against you,

Canaan, land of the Philistines;

And I will eliminate you

So that there will be no inhabitant.

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