STRONGS G3941:
πάροικος,
πάροικον (
παρά and
οἶκος);
1. in classical Greek
dwelling near, neighboring.
2. in the Scriptures
a stranger, foreigner, one who lives in a place without the right of citizenship; (
R. V. sojourner); the
Sept. for
גֵּר and
תּושָׁב (see
παροικέω 2, and
παροικία (and cf.
Schmidt, Syn., 43, 5; Liddell and Scott, under the word)): followed by
ἐν with the dative of place,
Acts 7:6,
29; metaphorically,
without citizenship in God's kingdom: joined with
ξένος and opposed to
συμπολίτης,
Ephesians 2:19 (
μόνος κύριος ὁ Θεός πολίτης ἐστι,
πάροικον δέ καί ἐπηλυτον τό γενητον ἅπαν,
Philo de cherub. § 34 (cf. Mangey 1:161 note));
one who lives on earth as a stranger, a sojourner on the earth: joined with
παρεπίδημος (which see), of Christians, whose fatherland is heaven,
1 Peter 2:11. (Cf. Ep. ad Diognet. § 5, 5 [ET].)
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