πάροικος
pároikos · G3941 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
-
alien, stranger, temporary resident
(Derivative of παροικέω ‘to live as a foreigner,’) A person who for a period of time lives in a place which is not his normal residence
ExamplesActs 7:6 “But God spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE STRANGERS IN A LAND THAT WAS NOT THEIRS, AND THEY WOULD ENSLAVE AND MISTREAT THEM FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.
Acts 7:29 “At this remark, MOSES FLED AND BECAME A STRANGER IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN, where he fathered two sons.
Ephesians 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σπέρμαseed, descendants 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὡςas, like 2
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.
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.
Near synonyms 1 word
- παρεπίδημος parepídēmos · G3927 · alien, stranger, temporary resident
- πάροικος and παρεπίδημος both denote a resident alien or temporary foreign resident. They are essentially interchangeable terms for this status, with a slight nuance of emphasis: πάροικος suggests a more settled resident-alien status, while παρεπίδημος emphasizes transience.
In the other Testament 2 words
- גֵּר gêr · H1616 · alien, sojourner, stranger
- גֵּר (gêr, H1616) is the standard Hebrew term for an alien resident or sojourner, translated in LXX contexts by πάροικος (pároikos, G3941), which carries the parallel sense of a resident alien or temporary dweller; both denote the legal-social status of one dwelling in a community without full native membership.
- תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb · H8453 · sojourner
- Greek πάροικος and Hebrew תּוֹשָׁב both denote a resident alien or sojourner living among a host community without full citizenship rights, representing a direct cross-linguistic translation equivalent for this legal-status category.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Alien, stranger, temporary resident11.77
- πάροικος names a resident living in a land not one's own by birthright, as Paul describes the transformed status of Gentile believers: “So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household.” (Ephesians 2:19)
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πάροικον (παρά and οἶκος); 1. in classical Greek dwelling near, neighboring. 2. in the…
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, Acts 7:29; metaphorically, without citizenship in God's kingdom: joined with ξένος and opposed to συμπολίτης, Eph 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 Pet 2:11. (Cf. Ep. ad Diognet. § 5, 5 [ET].)
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
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.