Word Study · Strong's G3941 · Greek
πάροικος
paroikos
par'-oy-kos
Strong's 1890 spelling: pároikos
“having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)
Rendered in the KJV as
foreigner, sojourn, stranger.
- 4occurrencesin the New Testament
- 3 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- πάροικοι,1
- πάροικον1
- πάροικος1
- παροίκους1
How it is rendered · 4
- a sojourner1
- aliens1
- aliens,1
- exiled1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- A-APM · 1
- A-NPM · 1
- A-NSM · 1
- A-NSN · 1
All 4, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Acts carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Acts2 occurrences
- Acts 7:6πάροικονparoikonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singularGod told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.here: a sojourner
- Acts 7:29πάροικοςparoikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singularAt this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.here: exiled