πάροικος paroikos · G3941
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)
Definition: TBESG (Abbott-Smith)
Classical Greek (Liddell–Scott–Jones) excerpt
πάροικος, ον, ; dwelling beside or near, neighbouring, with genitive, Κάδμου πάροικοι.. δόμων []; neighbour, οὐκ ἀσίνης π. []; Ἀττικὸς π., proverbial of a restless neighbour, []; 2 π. πόλεμος war with neighbours, []; II foreign, alien, []: as substantive, sojourner in another's house, []: generally, alien, stranger, []: in later Greek, ={μέτοικος}, []; = colonus, []
Where it's used 4 times
Acts 7:6 · Acts 7:29 · Ephesians 2:19 · 1 Peter 2:11
Source: TBESG G3941; TFLSJ G3941
Original-language words, glosses, parsing and lexicon entries: STEPBible data by Tyndale House, Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG, TFLSJ, TEHMC, TEGMC), CC BY 4.0, with changes. Hebrew text from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. English alignment: Berean Standard Bible tables (public domain).
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