παροικέω
paroikéō · G3939 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to dwell temporarily, to be a foreigner
To live or dwell temporari ly in a place as a stranger
ExamplesLuke 24:18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You possibly the only one living near Jerusalem who does not know about the things that happened here in these days?”
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he lived as a stranger in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
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to sojourn, to live as a foreigner
To dwell more or less permanently in a place which is not one’s own country (compare related meanings in υἱός (huiós, G5207), sense 12.)
ExamplesHebrews 11:9 By faith he lived as a stranger in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
How it’s used In 4 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
- σύyou 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἹερουσαλήμJerusalem 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto+ γῆearth 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐπιδημέω epidēméō · G1927 · to sojourn, to live as a foreigner
- παροικέω and ἐπιδημέω both denote residing temporarily in a foreign land, as a resident alien or sojourner. They converge precisely on the concept of dwelling as a non-citizen or foreigner.
In the other Testament 1 word
- גּוּר gûwr · H1481 · to sojourn, to live as alien, to dwell
- Hebrew גּוּר (gûwr, H1481) is the direct semantic equivalent denoting temporary residence as a foreigner or sojourner, matched by Greek παροικέω (paroikéō, G3939) in LXX translations of sojourning contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To dwell temporarily, to be a foreigner85.71
- This domain covers παροικέω naming a temporary residence in a place not one's own, as the writer of Hebrews describes Abraham's manner of life in Canaan: “By faith he lived as a stranger in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise.” (Hebrews 11:9)
- To sojourn, to live as a foreigner. (Compare related meanings in {D:11.77}.)85.78
- Here παροικέω names the condition of living as an outsider in an unfamiliar place, as Cleopas questions Jesus's apparent unfamiliarity with recent events: “One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, ‘Are You possibly the only one living near Jerusalem who does not know about the things that happened here in these days?’” (Luke 24:18)
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παροίκῳ; 1 aorist παρῴκησα; 1. properly, to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighborhood…
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, Lk 24:18 R L (Gen 20:1; Gen 21:34; Gen 26:3; Ex 12:40, the Alex. manuscript; Lev 18:3 (Ald.), etc.); with an accusative of place, ibid. G T Tr WH (Gen 17:8; Ex 6:4); εἰς with the accusative of place (in pregnant construction; see εἰς, C. 2), Heb 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-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
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