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paroikos G3941

πάροικος (paroikos) means “foreigner” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

πάροικος Greek · G3941 4 tagged occurrences in 4 verses

Pronunciation guide: par'-oy-kos Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G3941

πάροικος · paroikos · foreigner

άρ-οικος, -ον [in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשָׁב ;] 1. in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour. 2. In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Iuser. (Deiss., BS, 227 f.; Kennedy, Sources, 102), foreign, alien; as subst., an alien, a sojourner: Act.7:6 (LXX), Act.7:29; metapb., ξένοι καὶ π. (opposite to συμπολίτης), Eph.2:19; π. καὶ παρεπιδήμους (which see), 1Pe.2:11 (see Lft. on Clem. Rom., 1 Co., § 1).† (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

foreign, alien, subst: a foreigner, sojourner.

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How translators render G3941

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
foreigners 3
a foreigner 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a stranger 1
foreigners 1
sojourn 1
strangers 1

Verses containing G3941

Page 1 of 1. 4 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Acts 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  2. Acts 7:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  3. Ephesians 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  4. 1 Peter 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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Sources and text

Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). STEPBible data · License.

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