G3940 – paroikia – παροικία – a visitor
- Strong’s ID:
- G3940
- Greek Word:
- παροικία
- Transliteration:
- paroikia
- Pronunciation:
- par-oy-kee’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Etymology:
- from G3941
- Usage Count:
- 2
- Search:
- Find “paroikia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3941; foreign residence:—sojourning, × as strangers.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a dwelling near or with one
2) a sojourning, dwelling in a strange land
3) metaphorically the life of a man here on earth is likened to a sojourning
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.