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Strong's G3941 · Greek

πάροικος

paroikos · par'-oy-kos

from 3844 and 3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

πάρ-οικος (G3941)

4 πάρ-οικος , -ον , [in LXX chiefly for גֵּר , תּוֹשַׁב ;] in cl. Attic, dwelling near , neighbouring ; as subst., a neighbour . 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

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