πάροικος
paroikos · foreigner, alien
Greek word · Strong’s number G3941 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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paroikos (πάροικος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “foreigner, alien”.
One who lives in a land not his own.
How to say it
pa·roi·kos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- One living in a land not their own.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- foreigners ×3
- foreigner ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 7:6
And God spoke thus: that his offspring would be foreigners in a land belonging to others, and they would enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years.
- Acts 7:29
And at this word Moses fled and became a foreigner 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 members of the household of God,
- 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires which wage war against the soul.