μετοικίζω
metoikízō · G3351 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to resettle, to move to another place, to deport, deportation
To cause someone to change a place of habitation
ExamplesActs 7:4 “Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.
Acts 7:43 ‘YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL DEPORT YOU BEYOND BABYLON.’
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- σύyou 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰςto+ γῆearth 1
- ἐπέκειναbeyond+ ΒαβυλώνBabylon 1
- μετάwith, after+ ἀποθνήσκωto die 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- גָּלָה gâlâh · H1540 · to reveal
- μετοικίζω (metoikízō, G3351) specifically denotes the act of transferring/relocating populations (colonizing or exiling), while גָּלָה (gâlâh, H1540) has a broader semantic range including 'exile/captive' but also 'uncover/reveal/disclose' senses; the cross-linguistic equivalence holds specifically in exile/captivity contexts where both terms denote forced population transfer.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Deportation85.83
- This lexeme denotes the act of forcibly deporting a people. Acts 7:43 quotes the prophecy, “I ALSO WILL DEPORT YOU BEYOND BABYLON.”
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future (Attic) μετοικιῶ (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32); Winer's Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); 1 aorist…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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