G3941

πάροικος

paroikos

Adjective · From παρά (G3844) and οἶκος (G3624)

From G3844 and G3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident):—foreigner, sojourn, stranger.

Outline

dwelling near, neighbouring
in the NT, a stranger, a foreigner, one who lives in a place without the right of citizenship
metaph.

without citizenship in God's kingdom
one who lives on earth as a stranger, a sojourner on the earth
of Christians whose home is in heaven

Usages

Acts 7:6

And 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.

Breakdown

four hundred years The four hundred years Israel spent in slavery under the Egyptians (Genesis 15).

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Acts 7:29

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

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Ephesians 2:19

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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