noun · feminine
paroikias
Strong’sG3940
a sojourning
stem paroiki-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
† παρ-οικία, -ας, ἡ
(< παροικέω, q.v.), [in LXX: II Es 8:35 (גּוֹלָה), Ps 33 (34):4 54 (55):15 118 (119):54 119 (120):5, La 2:22 (מגוֹר; and cogn. forms), Hb 3:16, I Es 5:7, Jth 5:9, Wi 19:10, Si prol. 26 16:8 41:5 44:6, III Mac 6:36 7:19*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3940 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-oy-kee'-ah
foreign residence
Fromfrom G3941;
King Jamessojourning, X as strangers.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πάροικος Refs sojourning in a foreign land, LXX+NT; οἱ ἐν τῇ π., ={οἱ ἐκτός}, Refs
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 | paroikias | paroikiais |
| object accusative | paroikian | paroikiain |
| direct address vocative | paroikiar | paroikiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | paroikiau1×παροικίας | paroikiaiu |
| to, for dative | paroikia1×παροικίᾳ | paroikiai |
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
paroikia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
paroikiau“stay”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 1:17… hekastou ergem, en fobo ton tau paroikiau vu chronon anastrefivar;… yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
paroikia“stay”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 13:17… kai ton laon hupsata en ta paroikia en gēa Aiguptau, kai meta brachionou …… into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted …