3940. paroikia

Strong's Concordance

paroikia: a sojourning

Original Word: παροικία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: paroikia
Phonetic Spelling: (par-oy-kee'-ah)
Definition: a sojourning
Usage: a sojourning, a dwelling in a strange land.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from paroikos
Definition
a sojourning
NASB Translation
stay (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3940: παροικία

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 (); 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).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

sojourning, as strangers.

From paroikos; foreign residence -- sojourning, X as strangers.

see GREEK paroikos

Forms and Transliterations

παροικι παροικια παροικία παροικίᾳ παροικίαις παροικιας παροικίας paroikia paroikíāi paroikias paroikías

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 13:17 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ ἐν γῇ
NAS: during their stay in the land
KJV: when they dwelt as strangers in
INT: in the visiting in [the] land

1 Peter 1:17 N-GFS
GRK: τὸν τῆς παροικίας ὑμῶν χρόνον
NAS: during the time of your stay [on earth];
KJV: of your sojourning [here] in
INT: of the stay of you time

Strong's Greek 3940
2 Occurrences

παροικίᾳ — 1 Occ.
παροικίας — 1 Occ.