παροικέω
paroikeō · live as a foreigner
Greek word · Strong’s number G3939 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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paroikeō (παροικέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “live as a foreigner”.
Live as a stranger in a land.
How to say it
pa·roi·ke·ō
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
- To dwell in a land not your own, without a citizen's rights.
From Abbott-Smith (1922)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- he lived as a resident alien ×1
- staying as a visitor in ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 24:18
And one of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to him, “Are you the only one staying as a visitor in Jerusalem and you do not know the things that have happened in it in these days?”
- Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as a resident alien in the land of the promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;