adjective
paroikos
Strong’sG3941
a stranger, foreigner
stem paroik-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 26 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.
πάρ-οικος, -ον,
[in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשַׁב;]
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
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
dwelling beside or near, neighbouring, with genitive, Κάδμου πάροικοι.. δόμων Refs 5th c.BC+; neighbour, οὐκ ἀσίνης π. Refs 7th c.BC+; Ἀττικὸς π., proverbial of a restless neighbour, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 π. πόλεμος war with neighbours, Refs 5th c.BC+
II foreign, alien, LXX+NT: as substantive, sojourner in another's house, Refs 3rd c.AD+: generally, alien, stranger, LXX: in later Greek, ={μέτοικος}, Refs 3rd c.BC+; = colonus, Refs 4th 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 | 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
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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
paroikos“foreigner”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 7:29… en to logo houto, kai geneta paroikos en gēa Madiam, hou gennata huioin …… Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
paroikem“strangers”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Acts 7:6“strangers”… theos hoti eti tem spermem autou paroikem en gēa allotria, kai doulali autem …God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they …
paroikois“aliens”subjectnominative plural1×
Ephesians 2:19“aliens”ara oun ouketi avō xenois kai paroikois, alla avō sumpolitois toiu hagioiu kai …Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of …
paroikoin“aliens”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Peter 2:11“aliens”Agapētoir, parakalamō hōs paroikoin kai parepidēmoin apechorō taiu sarkikaiu epithumiaiu, …Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the …