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Strong's #3939 - παροικέω
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- to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighbourhood, to live near
- in the NT, to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn
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παροικ-έω,
dwell beside, c. acc., ἀπὸ Κνίδου μέχρι Σινώπης τὴν Ἀσίαν π. dwell along the coasts of Asia, Isoc. 4.162: c. dat., live near, πόλει Th. 1.71; ταῖς πυραμίσι OGI 666.13 (i A. D.); dwell among, τισι Th. 3.93: abs., Id. 6.82; of places, lie near, X. Vect. 1.5.
II live in a place as πάροικος, οἱ παροικοῦντες ξένοι D.S. 13.47, cf. SIG 709.9 (Chersonesus, ii B. C.); ὡς ἐπὶ ξένης Ph. 1.416; sojourn in, Ἱερουσαλήμ Luke 24:18.
III metaph., τὸν ἀνθ ρώπινον βίον παρῳκηκότες Phld. Mort. 38.
παροικέω, παροίκῳ; 1 aorist παρῴκησα;
1. properly, to dwell beside (one) or in one's neighborhood (παρά, IV. 1); to live near; (Xenophon, Thucydides, Isocrates, others).
2. in the Scriptures to be or dwell in a place as a stranger, to sojourn (the Sept. for גּוּר, several times also for יָשַׁב and שָׁכַן): followed by ἐν with a dative of place, Luke 24:18 R L (Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:34; Genesis 26:3; Exodus 12:40, the Alex. manuscript; Leviticus 18:3 (Ald.), etc.); with an accusative of place, ibid. G T Tr WH (Genesis 17:8; Exodus 6:4); εἰς with the accusative of place (in pregnant construction; see εἰς, C. 2), Hebrews 11:9. (Metaphorically and absolutely, to dwell on the earth, Philo de cherub. § 34 (cf. Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 1 [ET] and Lightfoot and Harnack at the passage; Holtzmann, Einl. ins N. T., p. 484f. Synonym: see κατοικέω.).)
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παρ -οικέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1481, also for H3427, H7931]
in cl., to dwell beside (c. acc), among (c. dat.) or near by (absol.). In late writers, to dwell in a place as a πάροικος (q.v.) or stranger: Luke 24:18, Hebrews 11:9.†
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