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GreekG3941Adjective

πάροικος

paroikos

4Occurrences
G3941Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)

from G3844 (παρά) and G3624 (οἶκος);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring., a neighbour.
2.In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Iuser., foreign, alien., an alien, a sojourner
LXX: chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשָׁב

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

πάροικος appears 4 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
2
1 Peter
1
Ephesians
1

Key Passages

1 Peter 2:11BSB

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

Acts 7:6BSB

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Acts 7:29BSB

At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

Ephesians 2:19BSB

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.