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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 the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. 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 temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, "I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land"),

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - "'No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest's lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat - you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - "'If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - "'If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner's family,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do 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 must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - David said to the young man who told this to him, "Where are you from?" He replied, "I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - During the time of Saul they attacked the Hagrites and defeated them. They took over their territory in the entire eastern region of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 - I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - You have been the object of Israel's hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it," says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 - Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, are as good as dead. The LORD has decreed your downfall, Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I will destroy everyone who lives there!"
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