Paroikia means “sojourning” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3940 — lappid (“lightning”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3940 παροικία (paroikia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paroikia (par-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. foreign residence [from G3941] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include strangers and sojourning. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paroikia (par-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. foreign residence [from G3941] KJV: sojourning, X as strangers Root(s): G3941
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3940. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
sojourning
Usage: παρ-οικία, -ας, ἡ (παροικέω, which see), [in LXX: Est.8:35 (גּוֹלָה), Psa.34:4 55:15 119:54 120:5, La 2:22 (מָגוֹר; and cogn. forms), Hab.3:16, I Est.5:7, Jdth.5:9, Wis.19:10, Sir prol. Sir.1:26 16:8 41:5 44:6, 3Ma.6:36 3Mac 7:19 * ;] a sojourning: Act.13:17, 1Pe.1:17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paroikia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3940 (παροικία) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
I sought the Lord diligently, and he hearkened to me, And delivered me from all my sojournings.
Let death come upon them, And let them go down alive into Hades, For iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3940.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
I sought the Lord diligently, and he hearkened to me, And delivered me from all my sojournings.
Let death come upon them, And let them go down alive into Hades, For iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
For the end, a Psalm and Song of David.
Thine ordinances were my songs In the place of my sojourning.
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.
He has called my sojourners round about To a solemn day, And there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord Anyone that escaped or was left; Whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.
I watched, and my belly trembled At the sound of the prayer of my lips, And trembling entered into my bones, And my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, From going up to the people of my sojourning.
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.
They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.
For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land, How the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, And how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fish.
Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, But abhorred them for their pride.
Be it little or much, hold thee contented,
The children of sinners are abominable children, And they that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3940, grouped by book.
Paroikia (Strong's G3940) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sojourning". paroikia (par-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. foreign residence [from G3941]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G3940 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3940 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strangers and sojourning. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3940, with linked reader references where each row is available.