STRONGS G3940:
													
												
									    		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 (
Psalms 120:5); 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). 
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