noun · feminine
metoikesias
Strong’sG3350
change of abode, migration, deportation
stem metoikesi-4 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μετοικεσία, -ας, ἡ
(= cl. μετοικία, -κησις; < μετοικέω, to change one's abode), [in LXX chiefly for גֹּלָה and cogn. forms, Ez 12:11, Ob 1:20, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3350 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={μετοικία} 1, especially of the captivity of the Jews, LXX+NT; also πλεόνων μ. 'the land o' the leal', Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | metoikesias | metoikesiais |
| object accusative | metoikesian1×μετοικεσίαν | metoikesiain |
| direct address vocative | metoikesiar | metoikesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | metoikesiau3×μετοικεσίας | metoikesiaiu |
| to, for dative | metoikesia | metoikesiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
metoikesia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
metoikesian“deportation”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 1:12“deportation”Meta de tan metoikesian Babulōnau Iechonios gennata ton Salathiēl, Salathiēl …After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father …
metoikesiau“deportation”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 1:11“deportation”… kai toin adelfoin autou epi tau metoikesiau Babulōnau.… of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
Matthew 1:17“deportation”… dekatessares, kai apo David heōs tau metoikesiau Babulōnau geneais dekatessares, kai apo tau …… there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
Matthew 1:17“deportation”… Babulōnau geneais dekatessares, kai apo tau metoikesiau Babulōnau heōs tou christou geneais dekatessares.… to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.