Foreigner
πάροικοςStrong’s G3941paroikos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Paroikos is the Greek word usually translated “aliens”, “sojourner” and “exiled”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.”
Meaning
Usually translated “aliens”, “sojourner” and “exiled”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- aliens 2
- a sojourner 1
- exiled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Ephesians 1
- 1 Peter 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 7:29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
- Ephesians 2:19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
- 1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Greek dictionary
πάροικος paroikos · foreigner
άρ-οικος, -ον [in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשָׁב ;] 1. in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour. 2. In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Iuser. (Deiss., BS, 227 f.; Kennedy, Sources, 102), foreign, alien; as subst., an alien, a sojourner: Act.7:6 (LXX), Act.7:29; metapb., ξένοι καὶ π. (opposite to συμπολίτης), Eph.2:19; π. καὶ παρεπιδήμους (which see), 1Pe.2:11 (see Lft. on Clem. Rom., 1 Co., § 1).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foreigner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOR'EIGNER, noun
for'aner. A person born in a foreign country, or without the country or jurisdiction of which one speaks. A Spaniard is a foreigner in France and England. All men not born in the United States are to them foreigners, and they are aliens till naturalized. A naturalized person is a citizen; but we still call him a foreigner by birth.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.