Original Word: παροικία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: paroikia
Pronunciation: pah-roy-KEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (par-oy-kee'-ah)
KJV: sojourning, X as strangers
NASB: stay
Word Origin: [from G3941 (πάροικος - aliens)]

1. foreign residence

sojourning, as strangers.

From paroikos; foreign residence -- sojourning, X as strangers.

see GREEK paroikos

Word Origin
from paroikos
Definition
a sojourning
NASB Translation
stay (2).

STRONGS NT 3940: παροικία

παροικία, παροικίας, ἡ (παροικέω, which see), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word a dwelling near or with one; hence, a sojourning, dwelling in a strange land: properly, Acts 13:17 (2 Esdr. 8:35; Psalm 119:5 (); Wis. 19:10; Prol. of Sir. 21; cf. Fritzsche on Judith 5:9). Metaphorically, the life of man here on earth, likened to a sojourning: 1 Peter 1:17 (Genesis 47:9); see παρεπίδημος (and references under παροικέω).

Forms and Transliterations

παροικι παροικια παροικία παροικίᾳ παροικίαις παροικιας παροικίας paroikia paroikíāi paroikias paroikías

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