Lexical Summary paroikeō: to dwell near, reside as a foreigner Original Word: παροικέωTransliteration: 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: παροικέωπαροικέω, 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.).) |
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