STRONGS NUMBER G3939


Word Summary
paroikeō: to dwell near, reside as a foreigner
Original Word: παροικέω
Transliteration: paroikeō
Phonetic Spelling: (par-oy-keh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to dwell near, reside as a foreigner
Meaning: to dwell near, reside as a foreigner
Strong's Concordance
sojourn in, be a stranger.

From para and oikeo; to dwell near, i.e. Reside as a foreigner -- sojourn in, be a stranger.

see GREEK para

see GREEK oikeo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3939: παροικέω

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.).)