Strong’s G3941 · Greek
πάροικος
pároikos · par'-oy-kos
Origin from παρά (G3844) and οἶκος (G3624);
Meaning having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)
In the King James Version foreigner, sojourn, stranger.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 7:6And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
- Acts 7:29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
- Ephesians 2:19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
- 1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.