adjective

paroikos

Greekπάροικος (paroikos)

Strong’sG3941

a stranger, foreigner

stem paroik-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

aliens2×foreigner1×strangers1×

What it means

πάρ-οικος, -ον,

[in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשַׁב;]

1. in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour.

2. In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Inscr. (Deiss., BS, 227 f.; Kennedy, Sources, 102), foreign, alien; as subst., an alien, a sojourner: Ac 7:6(LXX), 29; metaph., ξένοι καὶ π. (opp. to συμπολίτης), Eph 2:19; π. καὶ παρεπιδήμους (q.v.), I Pe 2:11 (v. Lft. on Clem. Rom., 1 Co., § 1).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3941 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpar'-oy-kos

having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)

Fromfrom G3844 and G3624;

King Jamesforeigner, sojourn, stranger.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	paroikos1×πάροικος	paroikas	paroikem1×πάροικον	paroikois1×πάροικοι	paroikais	paroikeim
object accusative	paroikon	paroikan		paroikoin1×παροίκους	paroikain
direct address vocative	paroikor	paroikar		paroikoir	paroikair
of, belonging to genitive	paroikou	paroikau	paroikeu	paroikoiu	paroikaiu	paroikeiu
to, for dative	paroiko	paroika	paroike	paroikoi	paroikai	paroikei

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

paroikstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

paroik 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

Words built on the same stem

paroikamō — παροικέω, I sojourn

Where it appears

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

paroikos“foreigner”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 7:29“foreigner”feugata de Mōusos en to logo houto, kai gineta paroikos en gēa Madiam, hou gennata huioin duo.At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

paroikem“strangers”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Acts 7:6“strangers”lalata de houtōs tos theos hoti eti tem spermem autou paroikem en gēa allotria, kai doulali autem kai kakali eteim tetrakosioi;God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

paroikois“aliens”subjectnominative plural1×

Ephesians 2:19“aliens”ara oun ouketi avō xenois kai paroikois, alla avō sumpolitois toiu hagioiu kai oikeiois tou theou,Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

paroikoin“aliens”objectaccusative plural1×

1 Peter 2:11“aliens”Agapētoir, parakalamō hōs paroikoin kai parepidēmoin apecherō taiu sarkikaiu epithumiaiu, hotinais strateuelō kata tau psuchau;Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.