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Lexicon :: Strong's G3941 - paroikos

Aa
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 he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest’s, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - And in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.

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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 on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 -
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;
Hold not thy peace at my tears:
For I am a stranger with thee,
A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 -
When they were but a few men in number,
Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 -
I am a sojourner in the earth:
Hide not thy commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
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