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Lexicon :: Strong's G3939 - paroikeō

Aa
παροικέω
Transliteration
paroikeō (Key)
Pronunciation
par-oy-keh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:841,788

Strong’s Definitions

παροικέω paroikéō, par-oy-keh'-o; from G3844 and G3611; to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner:—sojourn in, be a stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G3939 in the following manner: be a stranger (1x), sojourn (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G3939 in the following manner: be a stranger (1x), sojourn (1x).

  1. to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighbourhood, to live near

  2. in the NT, to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παροικέω paroikéō, par-oy-keh'-o; from G3844 and G3611; to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner:—sojourn in, be a stranger.
STRONGS G3939:
παροικέω, παροίκῳ; 1 aorist παρῴκησα;
1. properly, to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighborhood (παρά, IV. 1); to live near; (Xenophon, Thucydides, Isocrates, others).
2. in the Scriptures to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn (the Sept. for גּוּר, several times also for יָשַׁב and שָׁכַן): followed by ἐν with a dative of place, Luke 24:18 R L (Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:34; Genesis 26:3; Exodus 12:40, the Alex. manuscript; Leviticus 18:3 (Ald.), etc.); with an accusative of place, ibid. G T Tr WH (Genesis 17:8; Exodus 6:4); εἰς with the accusative of place (in pregnant construction; see εἰς, C. 2), Hebrews 11:9. (Metaphorically and absolutely, to dwell on the earth, Philo de cherub. § 34 (cf. Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 1 [ET] and Lightfoot and Harnack at the passage; Holtzmann, Einl. ins N. T., p. 484f. Synonym: see κατοικέω.).)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
17:8; 20:1; 21:34; 26:3
Exodus
6:4; 12:40
Leviticus
18:3
Luke
24:18
Hebrews
11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3939 matches the Greek παροικέω (paroikeō),
which occurs 53 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 -
Gilead abode beyond the Jordan:
And Dan, why did he remain in ships?
Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
And abode by his creeks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place, and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 -
When ye were but a few men in number,
Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

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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 Box2Ch 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And whosoever is left, in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 -
For I have heard the defaming of many,
Terror on every side:
While they took counsel together against me,
They devised to take away my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 -
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
Even as they have waited for my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 -
I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever:
I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings.
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 -
Unless Jehovah had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 -
Israel also came into Egypt;
And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:6 -
My soul hath long had her dwelling
With him that hateth peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 -
Devise not evil against thy neighbor,
Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 - Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 -
Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not!
When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
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